GLAS Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 23 April 2015

Thursday, 23 April 2015

Questions (98)

Éamon Ó Cuív

Question:

98. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers with commonage in the country broken down by county; the number of applications received to date from farmers with commonage for the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, broken down on the same basis; the number of these that have proceeded to select actions; the number that have submitted completed applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16182/15]

Written answers

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

The information requested by the Deputy is set out below in tabular form. No applications have been formally submitted to date, as the ‘submit’ facility has not yet been activated on the GLAS on-line system, so the table below records the number of applications that have been initiated on the system.

County	Number of GLAS applications initiate which have Commonage	Number of GLAS applications with actions and have Commonage	National number of farmers with Commonage
Carlow	42	29	172
Cavan	17	12	133
Clare	78	44	376
Cork	196	106	974
Donegal	568	416	2700
Dublin	11	2	44
Galway	414	276	2668
Kerry	417	294	1921
Kildare	4	4	62
Kilkenny	3	1	35
Laois	13	11	108
Leitrim	96	69	472
Limerick	11	5	57
Longford	8	5	58
Louth	18	10	165
Mayo	727	510	3273
Meath	0	0	12
Monaghan	0	0	3
Offaly	5	3	41
Roscommon	28	13	160
Sligo	94	61	491
Tipperary	56	23	322
Waterford	52	11	179
Westmeath	2	1	26
Wexford	17	8	105
Wicklow	47	31	319
TOTAL	2924	1945	14876