Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 26 Mar 1997

Vol. 477 No. 1

Written Answers. - Control of Farmyard Pollution.

Brendan Smith

Question:

207 Mr. B. Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the number of applications received to date from County Cavan under the control of farmyard pollution scheme, the dairy hygiene scheme and the REP scheme; the number of approvals issued; the number of applications approved for payment; and the number of payments issued. [8496/97]

Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry (Mr. Yates)

I have set out below the information requested by the Deputy.

Scheme	Applications to date	Approvals issued to date	Number of payments to date
Control of Farm Pollution	1,059	688	359
Dairy Hygiene	489	198	82
REPS	1,119	1,008	1,008

Some 130 CFP applicants who were written to in line with the revised procedures announced last year have not responded to date. A further 45 applications under CFP and 37 under dairy hygiene were withdrawn following an initial inspection by officials of my Department. The level of payments made under the CFP and hygiene schemes reflects the level of works satisfactorily completed to the Department's specification.