Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 8 October 2015
87. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have qualified for the first phase of the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme (GLAS) and GLAS+ by county; the average annual payments granted to farmers by GLAS and by GLAS + by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35068/15]
View answerUnder European Commission regulations all applications must be administratively checked before any application can be approved into the scheme. Almost 27,000 GLAS applications were submitted and final checks are currently being carried out and farmers will then be notified in writing of the outcome of their application. Until this process is complete it is not possible to determine precisely the number of eligible applications for GLAS/GLAS + or the average payment. Details of the exact individual payments to be made will only be known following completion of pre-payment checks, which will commence after approvals have issued in October and contracts have been accepted.
