Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who applied to the crop loss compensation scheme by county; the number of approved applicants; the number of applicants who withdrew from the scheme; the number per county who have been issued payments to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13675/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The crop loss support measure was launched in July to assist growers most affected by the wet weather harvest conditions of September 2016. A total of 167 applications were received under the measure.

Payments under the measure totalling €337,596.30 have been issued to 75 applicants. In a number of cases, further information or clarification is required in order to fully process applications. In all of these cases, the applicants have been contacted directly by an official from my Department. As the further information requested is received, these cases will be examined again and subsequent pay runs will be put in place as more case are cleared for payment.

The figures requested on a county basis are set out in the table.