Written answers

Thursday, 5 November 2020

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Dairy Equipment Scheme

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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339. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the type of meal bin feeders that are eligible for grant aid under the dairy equipment scheme; if changes to the specifications in this area have been made in recent times; the position regarding an application (details supplied) in connection with the type of feeder applied for in this case; and if the dairy equipment scheme is grant aiding this type of meal bin. [34396/20]

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Dairy Equipment Scheme, one of the suite of seven measures available under TAMS scheme, batch/multi place Meal Feeders are currently available on the list of investment items. The person named made an application for individual meal feeders on 5 April 2019.

TAMS is a demand-led scheme and due to the high increase in application numbers, ranking and selection was applied with a cut off mark of 52.5 in Tranche 18 for Dairy Equipment. Ranking and selection is the process of ranking each application in each tranche using pre-defined criteria. The application submitted by the person named received a mark of 39.36 and will now automatically rollover for consideration under Tranche 19.

It is open to the applicant concerned to withdraw their current application and submit a new application bearing in mind that they can now only apply for batch/multi place Meal Feeders and an application will receive an additional 5 marks for every 1% the costs are below the Department's reference costs.

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