Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 January 2022
696. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine , further to Parliamentary Question No. 354 of 9 December 2021, the breakdown of when the 682 GLAS participants planted land, the number of participants and the area planted per year, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3267/22]
View answer697. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine , further to Parliamentary Question No. 354 of 9 December 2021, the month and year the 682 participants in GLAS who planted land applied for their afforestation licence; when they received their afforestation licence, by month and year; when they completed the planting of the lands compared with when the first grants and premium were paid, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3268/22]
View answer698. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the 682 participants in GLAS, who planted land, represents 1.42% of the total participants in GLAS as having planted land under the afforestation grant and premium scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3269/22]
View answer699. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the 48,000 participants in GLAS who applied for afforestation approval under the afforestation grant and premium scheme during the term of GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3270/22]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 696 to 699, inclusive, together.
Following on from Parliamentary Question No. 354 of 9th December, 2021, 682 GLAS participants planted a total of 3,702ha. This is broken down by year in the table below.
|
Year |
Number |
Ha |
|
2016 |
225 |
1,277 |
|
2017 |
201 |
1,059 |
|
2018 |
106 |
584 |
|
2019 |
86 |
504 |
|
2020 |
64 |
277 |
As previously advised to the Deputy in Parliamentary Question 747 of 30th November of the 48,000 GLAS participants, just over 7,000 of those have a forest owner number with my Department. This means that they either had an application to plant or planted forestry, before or since joining GLAS. At 14.5%, this is a significant block of GLAS participants that have an interest in Forestry. The 682 that received the first instalment grant and first premium, during their participation in GLAS is a subset of those 7,000 farmers.
