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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 17 Oct 1979

Vol. 316 No. 1

Written Answers. - FEOGA Guidance Fund.

493.

asked the Minister for Agriculture the amount of FEOGA Guidance Fund allocations which has not been taken up by the State for each year since Ireland joined the EEC.

The following table indicates the amounts allocated and paid out of the Guidance Section of FEOGA since 1973—

Amount allocated

Amount paid

£million

£million

1973

2.873

1974

5.144

1975

6.936

0.585

1976

14.567

2.647

1977

16.565

7.330

1978

19.405

9.598

1979 (to 30 Sept)

4.887

3.704

Totals

70.377

23.864

All the allocations have been or will be taken up. The amounts allocated and paid in any one year differ because the bulk of the allocations are not paid until the work to which they relate has been completed in subsequent years.

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