Written answers
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Common Agricultural Policy
Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the CAP payments to farmers, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3724/21]
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The number of beneficiaries and the total amount of CAP payments in each county in respect of the CAP financial year 2019 (16th October 2018 to 5th October 2019) is provided in the following document.
The information was compiled from the 2019 CAP beneficiaries database which was published on the Department’s website on 29thMay 2020, in accordance with Article 111 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 which requires Member States to ensure the annual ex-post publication of all beneficiaries of CAP funding.
County | No. of Beneficiaries | Total Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 1,881 | 47,837,194 |
| Cavan | 4,850 | 55,866,224 |
| Clare | 6,266 | 80,753,821 |
| Cork | 13,198 | 207,677,504 |
| Donegal | 8,806 | 100,574,159 |
| Dublin | 856 | 18,527,648 |
| Galway | 12,663 | 149,166,231 |
| Kerry | 8,016 | 108,018,585 |
| Kildare | 2,216 | 37,946,029 |
| Kilkenny | 3,362 | 62,784,225 |
| Laois | 2,704 | 44,046,095 |
| Leitrim | 3,656 | 41,839,186 |
| Limerick | 5,252 | 73,226,547 |
| Longford | 2,494 | 31,568,643 |
| Louth | 1,564 | 24,305,924 |
| Mayo | 11,603 | 122,151,495 |
| Meath | 3,679 | 58,156,376 |
| Monaghan | 4,106 | 45,180,433 |
| Offaly | 2,828 | 43,908,068 |
| Roscommon | 5,582 | 65,128,677 |
| Sligo | 4,096 | 42,957,468 |
| Tipperary | 7,076 | 122,388,944 |
| Waterford | 2,369 | 46,783,541 |
| Westmeath | 3,357 | 48,028,308 |
| Wexford | 4,249 | 76,681,057 |
| Wicklow | 2,126 | 37,220,505 |
| Northern Ireland | 299 | 2,720,622 |
| Outside Ireland | 18 | 271,965 |
Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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885. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the CAP payments that would be paid to farmers, by county, in tabular form, if a cap on payments of €50,000, €60,000 or €70,000 was applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3725/21]
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The draft proposals for the new CAP include a number of measures which concern redistribution of direct payments, including:
- an overall cap of €100,000;
- degressive reduction of payments above €60,000, allowing a maximum payment of €80,250;
- a complementary redistributive income support scheme, and
- the convergence of payments towards a minimum of 75% of the average payment per hectare nationally.
These measures, and others under the direct payments ceiling, are inextricably linked to each other. This means that each time one of the elements is changed, each of the other elements also must change. The new CAP regulations remain under discussion at present and therefore, these elements are still changing.
My Department has carried out preliminary modelling exercises, including a review of the implications of capping of payments, the results of which have been made available online and a copy is attached to this reply. However, any analysis only remains current until one of the elements changes. This state-of-flux is likely to continue until the regulations are fully developed.
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