Written answers

Tuesday, 8 September 2020

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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1414. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of successful applications to the BEEPs scheme to date; the amount received by each individual; and the county each farm was located in tabular form. [21106/20]

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The objective of the Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme - Suckler (BEEP-S) is to further increase economic and environmental efficiency in the suckler herd through better quality data on herd performance, supporting decision making on farm and support of best practice in welfare management. Payments under the BEEP-S will be made in the last quarter of 2020.

The following table provides applications under the Scheme by county.

County Applicants
Carlow 337
Cavan 1,389
Clare 2,195
Cork 1,803
Donegal 1,504
Dublin 63
Galway 3,003
Kerry 1,263
Kildare 312
Kilkenny 636
Laois 633
Leitrim 1,088
Limerick 772
Longford 876
Louth 213
Mayo 2,654
Meath 629
Monaghan 998
Offaly 605
Roscommon 1,721
Sligo 1,077
Tipperary 1,114
Waterford 309
Westmeath 892
Wexford 597
Wicklow 405
TOTAL 27,088

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