asked the Minister for Agriculture whether any person who has lodged an application under Section B of the Land Project and whose application will not be proceeded with because of the termination of the scheme will be so informed.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Applications under Land Project, Section B.
53.
Known Section B applicants will be visited by the Department's local officers, who will discuss with them the possibility of carrying out the work under Section A.
Surely that is not the answer to Question No. 53?
It is the answer.
The Minister said just a minute ago that he has no way of knowing. Then how does he propose to visit those people?
They have been visited already.
The question deals with applications not to be proceeded with. The Minister says that known applicants will be so informed. How does he propose to inform them if he does not know them?
I say that there are ways of knowing them as a result of visits by the local supervisor just as in the previous question I said that all the 423 cases in County Kildare, have been, or will be carried out under Section B with the exception of 54 applications. We do not know what the intentions of the applicants are until they have been visited. In the 54 cases the applicants have been visited and schemes prepared.
Is it not a fact that the return issued by the Minister shows that there are plans prepared in 423 cases in County Kildare and in 364 cases the work is completed or in course of completion. Therefore the difference is the total of the other two figures and is the number to which Question No. 53 refers. I have got the answer of 423 to Question No. 52. There is a margin of about 400 cases to which Question No. 53 refers.
The Deputy is misreading these figures. The figure of 364 to which he refers must be subtracted from the figure of 423.
If I take 364 from 423 it means that there are roughly several applications roughly dealt with. There are also 759 people who have lodged applications in respect of which plans are not ready yet.
That is so.
What number of applications have been lodged for which plans are not yet ready?
You have to read these figures carefully. If you take the number of cases in which plans are ready there are 423 in County Kildare. The next figure of acreage——
Let us keep away from acreage at the present.
Deputies are becoming involved in a debate.
The next figure is the number of cases in which work has been completed or is in course of completion and that figure is 364. You subtract that from 423.
Agreed, but that does not give you 54.
I have told the Deputy that all the cases with the exception of 54 or 59 will be dealt with and I have described how it will be done.
We shall get away from mathematics and get on to the next question.
The plain answer is that 750 people in County Kildare are getting done up.
Order!