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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 30 June 2015

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

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Pearse Doherty

Question:

306. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of applications his Department has received, in tabular form by county, from those wishing to participate in the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; the number of applicants classified as being hill farmers and commonage farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25835/15]

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At the outset, I would like to welcome the fact that almost 27,000 applications were submitted in the first tranche of GLAS applications, which is very much in line with the projections I made when launching the scheme. All GLAS applications will now be assessed and approved in line with the priority environmental assets and pre-determined selection criteria. As applications are classified by actions selected and not by type of enterprise there is no classification by hill farmer but rather by commonage.

A full breakdown of all applications received, and identifying those with commonages, is given in the following table.

County

Submitted

Submitted with Commonage

Carlow

299

53

Cavan

961

24

Clare

1684

85

Cork

2347

327

Donegal

2043

670

Dublin

66

13

Galway

3250

701

Kerry

1853

610

Kildare

305

5

Kilkenny

473

9

Laois

393

16

Leitrim

1067

141

Limerick

1130

16

Longford

536

9

Louth

160

36

Mayo

2681

809

Meath

481

0

Monaghan

611

0

Offaly

505

1

Roscommon

1585

31

Sligo

978

112

Tipperary

1233

96

Waterford

393

64

Westmeath

680

1

Wexford

859

34

Wicklow

362

71

26935

3934

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