Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reconsider permitting grant applications for the development of cattle underpasses under the TAMS scheme on the grounds of health and safety. [23641/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The TAMS II Scheme has been very successful to date in terms of uptake with the number of approvals that have issued exceeding 14,500.  All of these approvals represent committed expenditure under the TAMS II measure of the Rural Development Programme 2014 - 2020.  

Payments under the Scheme to date have exceeded €56m and approvals and payments continue to issue on an ongoing basis for the comprehensive list of investments already included in the suite of seven existing TAMS measures.

Until the remaining outstanding approvals for works are completed and a payment claim submitted or the outstanding approvals lapse these cases represent potential payments and a budgetary provision must be maintained for their payment. There are no proposals at present to extend the list of investments available under TAMS to include underpasses.