Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant aid will be made available under TAMS for farmers who construct underpasses for health and safety reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41740/19]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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There are a huge variety of items available under the suite of seven measures under TAMS II. The financial allocation in respect of TAMS for the full Rural Development Programme period will be in the region of €395m. To date, total expenditure, including transitional expenditure, has reached €170m and payments continue to issue at the average rate of €1.4m per week.

23,800 applications have been approved under the scheme. The position is that all outstanding approvals issued represent potential outstanding liabilities for my Department and we must have a budget in place to pay these claims. As a result, it is not possible to consider adding additional items including cattle underpasses to the comprehensive list of investment items already available under TAMS II.