Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of payments in euro paid out for 2023 under the basic income support for sustainability scheme, by county; the total number of farmers paid in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10391/24]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) scheme is an exceptionally important support to farmers. To date in excess €675 million has been paid out to 119,296 farmers who applied under the 2023 scheme.

Attached is a breakdown in tabular form of the total amount of 2023 BISS scheme payments made to farmers on a per county basis for 2023 applications which have been paid up to and including Friday 01 March 2024.

Payments on 2023 applications continue to be made across a number of schemes as applicants meet the eligibility requirements.

Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of payments in euro paid out for 2023 under the complementary redistributive income support for sustainability, by county; the total number of farmers paid in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10392/24]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Complementary Redistributive Income Support for Sustainability (CRISS) is designed to ensure redistribution of direct payments from larger holdings to medium and smaller sized holdings. The support is provided in the form of an annual decoupled payment per eligible hectare to farmers who are entitled to a payment under the Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS). CRISS payment is made on the first 30 eligible hectares claimed. In combination with BISS it is an exceptionally important support to Irish farmers. In excess of €115 million has been paid to date under the 2023 scheme.

Attached is a breakdown in tabular form of the total amount of 2023 CRISS scheme payments made to farmers on a per county basis for 2023 applications which have been paid up to and including Friday 01 March 2024.

Payments on 2023 applications continue to be made as applicants meet the eligibility requirements.

Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of payments in euro paid out for 2023 under the Eco-scheme, by county; the total number of farmers paid in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10393/24]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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As of 23 February 2024, a total of 116,594 famers were paid €298,336,621 under the 2023 Eco-Scheme. A breakdown of numbers of herds paid by county as follows:-

Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of payments in euro paid out for 2023 under the agri-climate rural environment scheme, by county; the total number of farmers paid in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10394/24]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested is provided in the table below.

Interim payments to ACRES participants, which issued last week, are included in this table. Interim payments will issue to the remaining participants in the coming weeks.

Intensive work will continue on the calculation of the payments due to farmers under ACRES. When this work is completed, the ACRES payments, which will issue to farmers in June, will take into account the interim payments already made to the relevant participants.