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Agriculture Schemes

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 December 2018

Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Questions (430)

Jackie Cahill

Question:

430. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received for the hen harrier scheme by county; the number of approved applications; the number of farmers that have withdrawn from the scheme; the number of approved applicants that have received the 2018 payment; and the number of approved applicants that have not received the 2018 payment by county. [53620/18]

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The Hen Harrier scheme is operationally independent of my Department and is run by a Hen Harrier Project team. The info below is sourced from the Project Team. A total of 1,845 applications were received by the Hen Harrier Project team and of these 1,632 were deemed to be valid applications. The breakdown per county of valid applications is shown below.

Number of valid applications for the Hen Harrier Scheme

County

Number

Clare

309

Limerick

317

Galway

249

Kerry

284

Tipperary

127

Cork

226

Laois

57

Monaghan

35

Offaly

26

Mayo

1

Waterford

1

Total

1632

There were 695 contracts offered for the 2018 breeding season and 629 of those offers were accepted. Payments have now been prepared for 425 of those. See the table below.

Number of contracted participants paid for 2018 breeding season

County

Total

Paid

Unpaid

Clare

105

75

30

Limerick

127

75

52

Galway

96

70

26

Kerry

103

63

40

Tipperary

61

47

14

Cork

73

44

29

Laois

29

26

3

Monaghan

20

14

6

Offaly

13

10

3

Mayo

1

0

1

Waterford

1

1

0

Total

629

425

204

The Hen Harrier Programme is still open and offers for the 2019 season will commence in January 2019. No withdrawals from the programme have taken place.

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