Dáil Éireann Debate, Monday - 11 September 2017
1363. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of knowledge transfer group participants that have and have not completed their farm improvement plans. [38473/17]
View answerOn closure of Year 1 of the KT Programme at midnight, Wednesday 22 August, 17,690 Farm Improvement Plans had been submitted by the relevant KT Group Facilitator with a further 382 partially completed on the KT system. 991 Farm Improvement Plans have not been undertaken on the KT Farm Improvement Plan online system.
Some further data has been received which will now be reviewed by Department for further processing - for example, some elements were received by email in cases where the person submitting the data may have experienced submission issues etc.
Taken with completion numbers for the Animal Health Measures the overall position is that some 18,400 KT Participants have either fully or partially submitted the data submission requirements for Year 1 of KT. These participants will now be subject to the standard administrative and verification checks in order to process them for payment, including verification of having attended the required number of Group meetings etc.
