Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the payments made to landowners in counties Limerick, Cork, Kerry and Tipperary by county in circumstances in which land has been designated for the hen harrier in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9770/20]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department makes payment to landowners through the Hen Harrier Programme and through the Conservation of Farm Birds (Hen Harrier) option in GLAS.

The Hen Harrier Project is operationally independent of my Department and is run by a Hen Harrier Project Team. The information below is sourced from the Project Team. The Hen Harrier Programme has 1,524 participating farmers.

Under GLAS, farmers with hen harrier habitat qualify for a payment of €370 per hectare per year. The table below gives a breakdown of payments made under GLAS in respect of the Hen Harrier action to participating farmers in Limerick, Cork, Kerry and Tipperary for scheme years 2015-2019: