Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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1047. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons waiting for GLAS payments; the number of part payments issued; and his plans to have the outstanding payments processed. [15061/18]

Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail)
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1074. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of 2017 GLAS payments outstanding to farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15770/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1047 and 1074 together.

As of 12 April, 46,835 participants have received a 2017 advance payment. This represents over 98% of all eligible applicants. There will be another payment run this week also.

Of the remaining cases, the majority are the responsibility of the applicant and the payment is delayed due to the applicant not meeting his or her obligations under the scheme. I would encourage all applicants to ensure that any outstanding issues are resolved in order to allow the Department to make the payment.

The remaining cases after these are those which require individual attention from my Department and which we are working through to finalise as quickly as possible. This attention is usually required to make an amendment to the payment to reflect a change request from the applicant for e.g. withdrawing or amending an action or an eligible parcel under the scheme.