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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 26 May 1999

Vol. 505 No. 4

Written Answers. - Grant Payments.

Willie Penrose

Question:

97 Mr. Penrose asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food, further to Parliamentary Question No. 104 of 27 April 1999, the level and number of staff working on the payment of brucellosis reactor and depopulation grants in each county; the number of brucellosis incidents in 1998 and in 1999 to date; the number of brucellosis reactor grants paid in 1998 and in 1999 to date; the number of herd numbers awaiting payment where essential documentation has not been received and where essential documentation has been received but not yet processed; and the number of herds awaiting payments in Counties Tipperary, Limerick, Cork, Monaghan and Kerry. [14021/99]

The information sought is set out in the following tabular form.

1

*2

*3

County

Staff onBrucellosis

Grade

Carlow

2

HEO/EO

Cavan

3

HEO/EO/CO

Clare

2

HEO/SO

Cork North

4

HEO/SO/CO

Cork South

4

HEO/SO/CO

Donegal

5

HEO/CO

Dublin-Wicklow

3

HEO/CO

Galway

4

HEO/CO

Kerry

3

HEO/EO/CO

Kildare-Wicklow

3

HEO/EO/CO

1

*2

*3

County

Staff onBrucellosis

Grade

Kilkenny

4

HEO/EO/SO/CO

Laois

3

HEO/EO/CO

Leitrim

2

HEO/HCO

Limerick

6

HEO/EO/CO

Longford

2

HEO/CO

Louth

Nil

Nil

Mayo

3

HEO/SO/CO

Meath

2

HEO/CO

Monaghan

2

HEO/CO

Offaly

4

HEO/SO/CO

Roscommon

3

HEO/SO/CO

Sligo

2

HEO/HCO

Tipperary North

4

HEO/SO/CO

Tipperary South

2

HEO/CO

Waterford

3

HEO/EO/CO

Westmeath

2

HEO/CO

Wexford

3

HEO/SO/CO

*The staff detailed in Column 3 carry out a range of duties including necessary work on the processing of grant payments. The percentage of time spent on grant payments varies from DVO to DVO and depends on, inter alia, volume of breakdowns, size of herds, etc.
HEO = Higher Executive Officer
EO = Executive Officer
SO = Staff Officer
HCO = Higher Clerical Officer
CO = Clerical Officer
The number of burucellosis breakdowns from 1 January 1998 to 31 December 1998 was 1081. The number of brucellosis breakdowns from 1 January 1999 to date is 413. The number of herds awaiting payment where essential documentation has not been received is 388. The number of herds where essential documentation has been received but not yet processed is 80. In relation to Counties Tipperary, Limerick, Cork, Monaghan and Kerry the total number of cases where essential documents have not been received or have been received but not yet processed is 359.
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