GLAS Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 12 May 2015

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Questions (376)

Éamon Ó Cuív

Question:

376. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have indicated actions under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, by county, under Tier 1,Tier 2, and Tier 3; the number of these that have commonage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18679/15]

Written answers

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

A total of 28,715 applications have been created on the GLAS on-line system. A total of 20,625 applications have actions recorded of which 3,380 are commonage applications with actions. The breakdown of applications with actions is set out in tabular form below:

County	Total number of applications created	Applications with Actions	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Applications With Actions and have Commonage
Carlow	331	235	102	80	53	45
Cavan	1113	856	184	420	252	19
Clare	1774	1334	575	147	612	79
Cork	2454	1726	789	226	711	238
Donegal	2541	1841	1091	256	494	654
Dublin	107	72	29	18	25	11
Galway	3086	2397	1077	648	672	532
Kerry	1961	1482	924	133	425	488
Kildare	355	243	54	94	95	6
Kilkenny	479	294	109	67	118	5
Laois	491	348	136	121	91	18
Leitrim	996	828	231	240	357	125
Limerick	1068	721	292	144	285	11
Longford	520	378	59	161	158	7
Louth	224	149	54	39	56	33
Mayo	3058	2191	1313	288	590	781
Meath	574	401	59	182	160	0
Monaghan	621	496	37	215	244	0
Offaly	735	406	101	146	159	4
Roscommon	1626	1168	225	551	392	26
Sligo	1140	742	294	116	332	102
Tipperary	1141	727	268	127	332	50
Waterford	466	307	124	26	157	46
Westmeath	664	529	67	242	220	3
Wexford	789	462	145	166	151	19
Wicklow	401	292	126	84	82	78
Totals	28,715	20,625	8,465	4,937	7,223	3,380

The allocation between Tiers 1, 2 and 3 cannot be taken as definitive at this stage because there is the possibility that applicants may yet choose actions which may promote them to a higher tier.