My Department makes payment to landowners through the Hen Harrier Programme and through the Conservation of Farm Birds (Hen Harrier) option in GLAS.
The Hen Harrier Project is operationally independent of my Department and is run by a Hen Harrier Project Team. The information below is sourced from the Project Team. The Hen Harrier Programme has 1,524 participating farmers.
|
2015
|
2016
|
2017
|
2018
€
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2019
€
|
2020
€
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Totals
€
|
Cork
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
205,068.07
|
46,1736.2
|
0
|
66,6804.28
|
Kerry
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
256,961.32
|
52,1113
|
4,720.6
|
78,2794.92
|
Limerick
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
302,350.64
|
57,8325.7
|
2,303.5
|
88,2979.8
|
Tipperary
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
227,900.03
|
34,4997.7
|
0
|
57,2897.7
|
Under GLAS, farmers with hen harrier habitat qualify for a payment of €370 per hectare per year. The table below gives a breakdown of payments made under GLAS in respect of the Hen Harrier action to participating farmers in Limerick, Cork, Kerry and Tipperary for scheme years 2015-2019:
County
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2015
€
|
2016
€
|
2017
€
|
2018
€
|
2019
€
|
County Totals
€
|
Cork
|
208,811.38
|
1,353,357.33
|
1,643,434.69
|
1,649,143.77
|
1,616,215.64
|
6,470,962.81
|
Kerry
|
199,680.09
|
1,170,258.96
|
1,399,544.16
|
1,392,157.93
|
1,361,439.73
|
5,523,080.87
|
Limerick
|
341,757.54
|
1,781,551.76
|
2,075,389.10
|
2,066,725.23
|
2,053,555.39
|
8,318,979.02
|
Tipperary
|
116,273.77
|
743,305.02
|
907,885.37
|
904,951.19
|
899,053.58
|
3,571,468.93
|