Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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567.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to look into introducing an item created by a young entrepreneur (details supplied) as a qualifying item under TAMS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24608/24]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3) is a demand led scheme with significant budgetary constraints. As a result, it is not possible to consider adding additional items such as a portable cover for slurry pit manholes to the comprehensive list of investment items already available under TAMS at this time.

However, such investment items may be included for consideration when evaluating further updates to the TAMS 3 investment lists.

I will ensure that the list of investment items will continue to be reviewed on a regular basis. The inclusion of further investment categories will, of course, be dependent on the availability of the required funding under the TAMS 3 schemes.

David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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568.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the situation currently with respect to the payment of TAMs grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24660/24]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The processing of payments under the Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS II) is continuing on a weekly basis, with 460 claims on hand currently being processed.

To date, a total of 1,153 claims for payment have been submitted under TAMS 3. Payments are now commencing, with a total of almost €1.4 million issuing this week, and payments will continue to issue on a weekly basis as claims are submitted in respect of completed investments.

My Department is also continuing to issue approvals across all TAMS 3 schemes. To date, just over 13,000 approvals to commence investments have issued in respect of Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 applications. These will continue to issue, in conjunction with the processing of payment claims.