Erin McGreehan (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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649. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number po BISS applications made in County Louth from 2015 to 2025, in tabular format. [31849/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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The Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) replaced the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) in 2023. The BISS is designed to provide a direct income support to Irish farmers to underpin their continued sustainability and viability.

To claim payment under BISS, or its predecessor BPS, a farmer or their appointed agent must have submitted an area-based application via the online system.  While BISS is currently the main scheme that farmers apply for a small number of farmers that submit an application are not be eligible for BISS or BPS as they did not hold payment entitlements.

The number of eligible land-based applications made in County Louth from 2015 to 2025, is set out below, in tabular format, as requested.  On average 96% of these farmers would have held entitlements and hence would have been paid BISS and BPS as appropriate.