James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will approve TAMS II tranche 17 funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16661/20]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Tranche 17 of TAMS II closed on 5 June 2020. Under this tranche 4,952 new applications were received. These applications, together with those rolled over from tranche 16, bring the total number to be considered to 5,430.

The process is that these applications must pass the initial administrative checks required and are then subject to the ranking and selection process. Ranking and selection is the process of ranking each application in each tranche using the pre-defined criteria. The processing of all these applications is underway and approvals will commence in the coming weeks.

The indicative allocation for the TAMS II scheme over the course of the Rural Development Programme is €395 million. To date, €228 million has been paid across all the available schemes and a further €77m in approvals have yet to be claimed by applicants. Expenditure is being monitored on a weekly basis.