Farm Assist Scheme Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 15 April 2015

Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Ceisteanna (90)

Tom Fleming

Ceist:

90. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form and by county, the number of recipients of farm assist granted and refused from 1 January 2014 to date in 2015; the average waiting time for decisions on appeals; the number of appeals referred for independent oral appeal; and the percentage of these approved and refused. [14493/15]

Freagraí scríofa

Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection

The information requested by the Deputy in respect of a per-county breakdown of the number of farm assist claims awarded or refused from 1 January 2014 to date in 2015 is not available in my Department. I am however informed that there was an average of 9,854 monthly recipients during this period. A breakdown of the number of recipients in each of the months by county is detailed in the tabular statements.

The average time taken to process Farm Assist appeals by summary decision in 2014 was 23.2 weeks and 28.3 weeks for those requiring an oral hearing. The average time for 2015 to the end of March was 16.2 weeks for summary decision and 24.6 weeks for oral hearing.

The number of Farm Assist appeals decided by oral hearing in 2014 was 112 of which 70 (62.5 %) had a successful outcome for the appellant. In 2015 to the end of March the number decided by oral hearing was 20 of which 13 (65.0 %) had a successful outcome.

Farm Assist Recipients 2014

County	Jan	Feb	March	April	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Carlow	74	75	76	104	76	72	73	73	75	74	74	76
Cavan	340	332	332	329	330	327	326	326	330	328	324	326
Clare	555	555	539	540	527	529	573	189	524	526	522	521
Cork	833	825	806	795	810	811	720	884	797	793	787	788
Donegal	1,486	1,386	1,453	1,469	1,470	1,465	1,464	1,257	1,443	1,456	1,452	1,458
Dublin	28	29	27	27	26	26	222	348	30	32	32	32
Galway	1,036	1,027	1,012	1,023	1,018	1,019	765	787	1,012	999	1,005	1,000
Kerry	752	27	726	733	729	722	632	714	719	713	714	721
Kildare	38	39	40	39	40	41	38	38	39	38	38	37
Kilkenny	126	124	120	121	122	121	79	96	116	119	120	120
Laois	129	122	122	120	118	117	82	118	116	115	117	116
Leitrim	388	389	382	377	379	383	381	387	382	375	374	377
Limerick	232	232	224	229	229	229	227	390	215	221	217	216
Longford	233	228	225	219	216	208	213	107	205	207	204	205
Louth	80	77	73	74	74	77	81	83	83	82	82	82
Mayo	1,686	1,685	1,639	1,199	1,484	1,653	1,332	1641	1,629	1,627	1,615	1,614
Meath	82	80	77	82	84	86	203	130	86	84	82	81
Monaghan	461	455	440	454	452	454	454	453	453	450	450	446
Offaly	105	101	93	117	94	90	136	183	94	95	98	97
Roscommon	387	383	381	556	552	370	344	359	358	351	356	356
Sligo	285	285	278	284	282	284	415	279	277	276	280	283
Tipperary	361	359	356	356	357	353	343	344	344	340	339	336
Waterford	80	84	82	372	81	81	49	80	78	78	77	78
Westmeath	164	160	155	158	156	157	153	154	153	153	152	153
Wexford	223	221	216	167	225	156	515	423	231	229	226	223
Wicklow	71	65	66	79	67	138	121	65	64	64	66	67
Grand Total	10,235	10,145	9,940	10,023	9,998	9,969	9,941	9908	9,853	9,825	9,803	9,809

Farm Assist Recipients 2015

County	Jan	Feb	March
Carlow	75	73	73
Cavan	322	337	321
Clare	519	511	483
Cork	794	790	699
Donegal	1,440	1,436	1,359
Dublin	33	33	33
Galway	1,000	981	900
Kerry	720	717	637
Kildare	37	37	30
Kilkenny	119	118	113
Laois	112	109	112
Leitrim	373	378	344
Limerick	214	212	178
Longford	199	190	183
Louth	82	83	75
Mayo	1,608	1,589	1,439
Meath	80	79	66
Monaghan	442	425	416
Offaly	96	98	95
Roscommon	353	355	337
Sligo	281	277	253
Tipperary	338	336	309
Waterford	78	74	72
Westmeath	150	150	149
Wexford	218	218	190
Wicklow	68	70	62
Grand Total	9,751	9,676	8,928