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Thursday, 25 October 2018
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Data
Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of active participants in each of the forestry schemes in tabular form (details supplied). [44448/18]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The Afforestation Scheme offers a fixed grant towards establishment costs and a premium each year for a maximum period of 15 years. The overall scheme comprises various Grant and Premium Categories (GPCs) and beneficiaries may partake in more than one GPC.
The number of active recipients, that is those who received a premium payment in 2017, is 825, but each individual recipient may have received premiums under different GPCs. The table below shows the number of active participants in each of the GPCs.
| GPC1 – Unenclosed land | 58 |
|---|---|
| GPC2 – Sitka spruce/Lodgepole pine | 0 |
| GPC3 – 15% Diverse conifers, e.g. Sitka spruce and 15% broadleaves | 695 |
| GPC4 – Diverse conifers, e.g. Scots pine, Douglas Fir | 78 |
| GPC5 – Broadleaf, e.g. sycamore | 21 |
| GPC6 – Oak | 123 |
| GPC7 – Beech | 7 |
| GPC8 – Alder and Birch | 122 |
| GPC9 – Native Woodland Establishment (oak-birch-holly-hazel) | 43 |
| GPC10 – Native Woodland Establishment (alder-oak woodland) | 22 |
| GPC11 – Agro-forestry | 0 |
| GPC12 – Forestry-for-fibre | 0 |
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