Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 17 December 2015
260. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, tranche II, by tier 1, 2 and 3 and by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46026/15]
View answerThe GLAS online application system closed for the creation of new applications at midnight on Monday December 14. In light of the large volume of applications on the system, my Department has allowed advisors until 6pm Friday December 18 to finalise any which have not yet been submitted.
Interest in joining the scheme under Tranche 2 has been extremely high, and I am particularly happy to see so many Tier 1 and Tier 2 candidates. As already indicated, applications from these candidates will receive priority when allocating places under Tranche 2. Full details of applications, including a county-by-county breakdown by Tier, will not be available until all applications have been submitted, but the most recent information nationally is as follows:
A total of 19,105 applications have been created on the online system, with following breakdown by Tier: Tier 1 - 8,676; Tier 2 - 4,816; and Tier 3 - 5,613.
Of these, a total of 13,705 had been formally submitted up to yesterday morning, broken down as follows: Tier 1 - 6,866; Tier 2 - 4,151; and Tier 3 - 2,688.
