Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 12 Nov 1964

Vol. 212 No. 6

Written Answers. - Agricultural Grant.

45.

Mr. Tully

asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state in respect of the operation of the agricultural grant in the present financial year, having regard to the rate in the pound in each county and the net rates payable on agricultural land in each county and assuming that one relative is engaged full-time on an agricultural holding, the estimated minimum land valuation of a holding which enables the rated occupier to qualify for the full employment allowance for one person and no more, and the rate in the pound in each county; and if he will set out the reply in provincial divisions.

Mr. Blaney

Following is the information:

	1964-65
County	Estimated minimum land valuationon which employment allowance of £17 would be payable in respect of the employment of one qualified workman	County Rate
	£	s.	d.
Connaught:
Galway	27.121	68	2.75
Leitrim	28.521	57	0
Mayo	27.041	69	.0
Roscommon	28.995	54	0.28
Sligo	29.341	52	0.15
Leinster:
Carlow	30.271	47	6
Dublin	31.847	41	0
Kildare	30.559	46	0.72
Kilkenny	31.628	41	10.82
Laois	30.501	46	3
Longford	27.898	61	6.47
Louth	30.261	47	5.50
Meath	35.440	31	6
Offaly	30.502	46	3.01
Westmeath	31.365	42	9
Wexford	30.915	44	6.25
Wicklow	31.877	40	11.25
Munster:
Clare	29.296	52	3.18
Cork North	28.356	58	1.60
Cork South	28.909	54	6.62
Cork West	29.341	52	0.03
Kerry	27.302	66	6.40
Limerick	30.067	48	3.06
Tipperary (NR.)	29.520	51	3
Tipperary (SR.)	30.032	48	5.29
Waterford	29.431	51	6.03
Ulster:
Cavan	29.714	50	0
Donegal	27.531	64	6.24
Monaghan	31.039	44	0.75

46.

Mr. Tully

asked the Minister for Local Government if he will give details of the agricultural grant for 1963-64 in the form of replies of 30th October, 1962 and 7th November, 1963.

Mr. Blaney

Following is the information:—

AGRICULTURAL GRANT, 1963-64

	Number of rated occupiers whose claims for Employment Allowance were admitted	Number of persons in respect of whom Employment Allowances were granted.
	Relatives of occupiers	Employees	Total	Employees as percentage of total number at work
					%
Connaught:
Galway	1,974	2,020	474	2,494	19.0
Leitrim	326	296	109	405	26.9
Mayo	762	761	251	1,012	24.8
Roscommon	1,081	1,051	217	1,268	17.1
Sligo	662	623	199	822	24.2
TOTAL	4,805	4,751	1,250	6,001	20.8
Leinster:
Carlow	1,149	776	815	1,591	51.2
Dublin	863	511	1,631	2,142	76.1
Kildare	1,707	851	1,897	2,748	69.0
Kilkenny	2,421	2,001	1,543	3,544	43.5
Laoighis	1,535	1,310	1,136	2,446	46.4
Longford	968	622	243	865	28.1
Louth	930	739	971	1,710	56.8
Meath	2,235	1,558	2,289	3,847	54.3
Offaly	1,320	1,161	755	1,916	39.4
Westmeath	1,300	1,042	730	1,772	41.2
Wexford	2,679	2,195	2,097	4,292	48.9
Wicklow	1,125	752	1,036	1,788	57.9
TOTAL	18,232	13,518	15,143	28,661	52.8
Munster:
Clare	1,557	1,425	510	1,935	26.4
Cork	6,720	4,723	4,253	8,976	47.4
Kerry	1,442	1,480	459	1,939	23.7
Limerick	3,734	2,473	1,898	4,371	43.4
Tipperary NR.	1,814	1,502	1,008	2,510	40.2
Tipperary SR.	2,123	1,783	1,480	3,263	45.4
Waterford	1,475	1,099	1,142	2,241	51.0
TOTAL	18,865	14,485	10,750	25,235	42.6
Ulster:
Cavan	1,323	1,182	387	1,569	24.7
Donegal	1,092	1,027	721	1,748	41.2
Monaghan	1,186	1,106	362	1,468	24.7
TOTAL	3,601	3,315	1,470	4,785	30.7
GRAND TOTAL	45,503	36,069	28,613	64,682	44.2

47.

Mr. Tully

asked the Minister for Local Government if he will give details of employment allowances under the agricultural grant in continuation of the reply to Question No. 53 of 23rd March, 1960.

Mr. Blaney

Following is the information:—

PERSONS in respect of whom Employment Allowances were granted under the Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Acts in the under-mentioned counties in the year ended 31st March.

	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964
Carlow:
(a) relatives	872	890	814	818	776
(b) employees	1,025	902	894	849	815
Total	1,897	1,792	1,708	1,667	1,591
Cavan:
(a) relatives	1,290	1,183	1,125	1,127	1,182
(b) employees	481	474	448	427	387
Total	1,771	1,657	1,573	1,554	1,569
Clare:
(a) relatives	1,620	1,542	1,511	1,484	1,425
(b) employees	623	609	600	533	510
Total	2,243	2,151	2,111	2,017	1,935
Cork:
(a) relatives	5,281	5,224	5,007	5,018	4,723
(b) employees	5,403	5,079	4,821	4,520	4,253
Total	10,684	10,303	9,828	9,538	8,976
Donegal:
(a) relatives	939	942	918	1,090	1.027
(b) employees	812	860	766	776	721
Total	1,751	1,802	1,684	1,866	1,748
Dublin:
(a) relatives	573	519	486	484	511
(b) employees	1,916	1,822	1,753	1,685	1,631
Total	2,489	2,341	2,239	2,169	2,142
Kerry:
(a) relatives	1,551	1,543	1,483	1,497	1,480
(b) employees	477	492	470	458	459
Total	2,028	2,035	1,953	1,955	1,939
Kildare:
(a) relatives	933	907	835	899	851
(b) employees	2,231	2,183	2,145	1,962	1,897
Total	3,164	3,090	2,980	2,861	2,748
Kilkenny:
(a) relatives	2,161	2,123	2,067	2,092	2,001
(b) employees	1,850	1,809	1,730	1,567	1,543
Total	4,011	3,932	3,797	3,659	3,544
Laoighis:
(a) relatives	1,499	1,468	1,229	1,247	1,310
(b) employees	1,079	1,057	1,117	1,085	1,136
Total	2,578	2,525	2,346	2,332	2,446
Limerick:
(a) relatives	2,565	2,577	2,506	2,515	2,473
(b) employees	2,352	2,288	2,158	2,024	1,898
Total	4,917	4,865	4,664	4,539	4,371
Longford:
(a) relatives	762	746	721	675	622
(b) employees	311	297	290	235	243
Total	1,073	1,043	1,011	910	865
Louth:
(a) relatives	840	806	805	740	739
(b) employees	1,102	1,088	1,052	933	971
Total	1,942	1,894	1,857	1,673	1,710
Meath:
(a) relatives	1,836	1,720	1,674	1,587	1,558
(b) employees	2,867	2,733	2,569	2,364	2,289
Total	4,703	4,453	4,243	3,951	3,847
Monaghan:
(a) relatives	1,160	1,103	1,044	1,098	1,106
(b) employees	471	451	403	396	362
Total	1,631	1,554	1,447	1,494	1,468
Offaly:
(a) relatives	1,369	1,288	1,227	1,235	1,161
(b) employees	891	942	796	847	755
Total	2,260	2,230	2,023	2,082	1,916
Tipperary NR.:
(a) relatives	1,500	1,481	1,475	1,502	1,502
(b) employees	1,288	1,217	1,146	1,049	1,008
Total	2,788	2,698	2,621	2,551	2,510
Tipperary SR.:
(a) relatives	1,921	1,868	1,800	1,792	1,783
(b) employees	1,827	1,739	1,719	1,619	1,480
Total	3,748	3,607	3,519	3,411	3,263
Waterford:
(a) relatives	1,238	1,194	1,143	1,152	1,099
(b) employees	1,425	1,370	1,306	1,167	1,142
Total	2,663	2,564	2,449	2,319	2,241
Westmeath:
(a) relatives	1,110	1,107	1,035	1,026	1,042
(b) employees	974	900	816	753	730
Total	2,084	2,007	1,851	1,779	1,772
Wexford:
(a) relatives	2,222	2,168	2,074	2,271	2,195
(b) employees	2,636	2,560	2,376	2,428	2,097
Total	4,858	4,728	4,450	4,699	4,292
Wicklow:
(a) relatives	839	798	767	724	752
(b) employees	1,242	1,189	1,118	1,059	1,036
Total	2,081	1,987	1,885	1,783	1,788

48.

Mr. Tully

asked the Minister for Local Government if he will give particulars of the employment allowance under the agricultural grant for each county and province and for the State in 1963-64, stating the number of farm employees and relatives, together with the amount of primary allowance, supplementary allowance and employment allowance payable for each county in the form of a reply of 21st March 1962.

Mr. Blaney

Particulars of the number of persons in respect of whom employment allowance was granted in the year 1963-64 are contained in the reply to Question No 46. Following is the further information requested:—

Agricultural Grant, 1963-64

		Primary Allowance	Supplementary Allowance	Employment Allowance
		£	£	£
CONNAUGHT:
Galway		627,773	58,162	34,474
Leitrim		179,013	7,469	5,361
Mayo		499,291	20,510	13,175
Roscommon		319,950	37,191	16,842
Sligo		217,129	20,498	10,963
	TOTAL	1,843,156	143,830	80,815
LEINSTER:
Carlow		75,259	40,724	24,744
Dublin		75,694	59,499	33,473
Kildare		115,213	81,090	44,248
Kilkenny		156,253	81,510	55,499
Laoighis		140,879	52,494	35,002
Longford		154,218	28,497	12,645
Louth		94,568	47,414	26,881
Meath		161,976	111,627	59,053
Offaly		153,319	50,127	26,807
Westmeath		155,000	68,701	26,598
Wexford		188,212	79,521	67,137
Wicklow		95,093	50,101	28,668
	TOTAL	1,565,684	751,305	440,755
MUNSTER:
Clare		282,850	54,310	27,448
Cork		657,193	237,276	143,280
Kerry		359,969	37,334	25,822
Limerick		259,975	115,524	66,721
Tipperary NR		185,674	63,507	39,229
Tipperary SR		188,732	100,123	51,024
Waterford		133,960	78,493	37,654
	TOTAL	2,068,353	686,567	391,178
ULSTER:
Cavan		277,132	29,255	19,155
Donegal		323,475	45,231	27,382
Monaghan		196,141	29,629	20,662
	TOTAL	796,748	104,115	67,199
	GRAND TOTAL	6,273,941	1,685,817	979,947