Claire Kerrane
Question:1267. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the full-year cost of expanding the straw incorporation measure to include an additional 100 participants in 2024. [37747/23]
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The Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) forms part of the Cap Strategic Plan (CSP) 2023 - 2027.
The CSP has an allocation of €50 million over the 5 years of the plan for SIM, which gives an indicative annual budget of €10 million, targeting some 40,000 hectares of straw incorporation annually.
Application for the Measure is via the annual Basic Income for Sustainability (BISS) and other area based schemes application process. The measure is available to all those who in adherence with the Terms and Conditions - declare the requisite eligible crops and confirm their intent to participate when completing their online BISS application.
There is no upper limit to the number of applicants who may seek to join the Measure, but where the Measure is oversubscribed a process of ranking and selection may be applied with applicants placed into tiers based on their application data.