Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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773. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which increased funding for the BEEP scheme will be provided in view of the fact that the scheme in oversubscribed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31039/20]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The final funding requirement for the 2020 BEEP-S scheme will not be known until after the closing date for the completion of measures under the scheme, which is 1st November, and any decisions arising will be taken after that date. Payments under the scheme are scheduled to be made in early December.

Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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774. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay with payments of the farming TAMS scheme payments; when the funds needed for these payments will be released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31099/20]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Tranche 18 of TAMS II closed on 20 August 2020. Under this tranche 3,448 new applications were received. These applications, together with those rolled over from tranche 17, bring the total number to be considered to 4,645.

The process is that these applications must pass the initial administrative checks required and are all 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 ranking and selection will be completed in the coming weeks after which the eligible applications selected for approval are further processed.

The indicative allocation for the TAMS II scheme over the course of the Rural Development Programme is €395 million. To date, €246 million has been paid across all the available schemes and a further €130m in approvals have yet to be claimed by applicants. A significant level of payments continue to issue with average weekly payments exceeding €1.4 million.