Knowledge Transfer Programme

Friday, 7 September 2018

Questions (1020, 1021)

Charlie McConalogue

Question:

1020. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of knowledge transfer group participants who have and have not completed animal health measures, respectively, by county, in tabular form. [36949/18]

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Charlie McConalogue

Question:

1021. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of knowledge transfer group participants who have and have not completed respectively farm improvement plans; and the number of knowledge transfer groups meetings that took place by the 31July deadline by county, in tabular form. [36950/18]

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Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I propose to take Questions Nos. 1020 and 1021 together.

The detailed information requested is being gathered and I will be in contact with the Deputy shortly.

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 42A

Following the deadline for completion of year 2 Farm Improvement Plans (FIPs) and Animal Health Measures (AHMs) on the KT FIP online system (14th August 2018) the below is a breakdown of completion rates by county as requested by the Deputy.

County	AHM Completed	AHM Not Completed	FIP Fully Completed	FIP Partially Completed	FIP Not Completed
Carlow	175	109	217	2	65
Cavan	368	64	394	13	25
Clare	416	106	419	31	72
Cork	1,479	495	1,688	30	256
Donegal	1,267	145	1,333	7	72
Dublin	20	57	51	1	25
Galway	2,085	361	2,096	46	304
Kerry	819	153	856	9	107
Kildare	137	118	208	1	46
Kilkenny	473	198	573	5	93
Laois	247	177	358	3	63
Leitrim	392	37	401	4	24
Limerick	653	175	685	15	128
Longford	315	49	334	2	28
Louth	165	68	200	0	33
Mayo	1,690	224	1,739	5	170
Meath	313	120	371	15	47
Monaghan	447	110	440	6	111
Offaly	260	82	304	5	33
Roscommon	837	106	859	4	80
Sligo	508	43	512	1	38
Tipperary	945	451	1,062	56	279
Waterford	187	58	212	1	31
Westmeath	354	43	371	2	24
Wexford	479	274	674	8	71
Wicklow	200	107	246	1	60
Total Online submissions	15,231	3,930	16,603	273	2,285

In addition, it should be noted that a proportion of completed FIPs and AHMs were unable to be completed on the online system for various reasons and these were submitted via email (with prior DAFM approval) ahead of the year 2 deadline.

In this regard approximately 95 KT Facilitators submitted fully completed FIPs via email submission with an additional circa 310 AHMs submitted in this manner by KT approved Private Veterinary Practitioners.

These manual submissions are currently undergoing verifications and at present the breakdown of these per county is not available to provide to the Deputy.