Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications to the beef environmental efficiency pilot scheme by the closing deadline by county in tabular form; and if the deadline will be extended to allow more applications from suckler farmers. [10182/19]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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194. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cows registered with the beef environmental efficiency pilot scheme by the closing deadline by county in tabular form. [10183/19]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 193 and 194 together.

Applications from 18,536 herd owners have been received for the Beef Environmental Efficiency Pilot. As calves born up until 30 June 2019 are eligible, a final figure for eligible calves is not yet available.

I have not extended the deadline for applications. An application window of three weeks was provided for the initial expression of interest. The Pilot was designed to be as accessible to farmers as possible. The application process was straightforward and the pilot contains only one measure. I expect that all of the available funding will be utilised.

The Breakdown by county of applications of expressions of interest can be seen in the table below: