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Sheep Welfare Scheme

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 July 2020

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Questions (681)

Matt Carthy

Question:

681. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of unsuccessful applicants to the sheep welfare scheme by county in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and the reason each application was denied in tabular form. [19201/20]

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Please see table below that provides a county breakdown for each scheme year for the numbers of unsuccessful applicants to the Sheep Welfare Scheme.

There are a number of reasons as to why an application for participation in the scheme would be unsuccessful. Typical reasons for this in the first year of the scheme were that applications were returned to my Department incomplete, census information was not returned for one or both of the reference years for the scheme of 2014/2015 or the 2016 census was not returned to the Department as required.

In  the second year of the scheme,  a typical reason was the failure to complete and return the continuation sheet required for applicants to indicate that they wished to continue in the scheme.

Additional issues common across all scheme years were that the applicants did not submit a BPS application, or the required census information was not available in the case of new entrants.

Applications not successful in a particular scheme year could subsequently successfully apply in later scheme years where a successful appeal was made by the applicant.

County

2017

2018

2019

2020

Carlow

8

5

1

0

Cavan

8

1

0

0

Clare

0

1

0

0

Cork

18

5

3

0

Donegal

58

16

4

2

Dublin

1

2

0

1

Galway

55

14

3

4

Kerry

36

7

5

0

Kildare

16

0

0

0

Kilkenny

12

1

0

0

Laois

10

1

1

1

Leitrim

7

2

0

1

Limerick

6

0

0

0

Longford

10

0

1

1

Louth

6

0

0

0

Mayo

75

24

4

3

Meath

21

9

1

2

Monaghan

18

5

1

0

Offaly

14

4

0

0

Roscommon

30

16

0

2

Sligo

19

2

1

0

Tipperary

14

3

0

1

Waterford

7

1

1

2

Westmeath

22

4

0

2

Wexford

30

4

0

0

Wicklow

28

7

1

1

Total

529

134

27

23

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