Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 2 November 2016
389. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that have been chosen for satellite inspection over each of the past five years, including 2016 to date, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32718/16]
Amharc ar fhreagraEU regulations governing the administration of the Basic Payment Scheme and other area-based schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including ground or remote sensing (satellite) inspections, are fully completed before any payments are issued. This is to ensure that payments do not issue on ineligible areas/features, that only eligible applicants are paid, and to avoid an applicant receiving an undue payment that would have to be recovered by my Department.
The regulations prescribe that a minimum of 5% of beneficiaries must be subject to a land eligibility inspection and these inspections can be undertaken by means of field visits on the ground or by means of remote sensing using up-to-date satellite imagery. My Department inspects in the region of 90% of land eligibility cases by means of remote sensing.
The following table details the number of cases subject to remote sensing inspections for each of the years 2012 to 2016 by county:
|
County |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
|
Carlow |
42 |
143 |
10 |
110 |
219 |
|
Cavan |
241 |
447 |
88 |
232 |
299 |
|
Clare |
176 |
83 |
356 |
148 |
185 |
|
Cork |
596 |
542 |
587 |
553 |
340 |
|
Donegal |
440 |
278 |
484 |
395 |
205 |
|
Dublin |
1 |
1 |
54 |
35 |
6 |
|
Galway |
683 |
379 |
795 |
650 |
496 |
|
Kerry |
168 |
498 |
266 |
384 |
244 |
|
Kildare |
124 |
161 |
180 |
146 |
67 |
|
Kilkenny |
227 |
65 |
281 |
193 |
187 |
|
Laois |
96 |
80 |
182 |
293 |
110 |
|
Leitrim |
399 |
14 |
449 |
329 |
98 |
|
Limerick |
193 |
206 |
98 |
277 |
189 |
|
Longford |
189 |
1 |
222 |
132 |
119 |
|
Louth |
1 |
39 |
1 |
128 |
118 |
|
Mayo |
547 |
620 |
433 |
483 |
878 |
|
Meath |
138 |
159 |
105 |
50 |
307 |
|
Monaghan |
4 |
85 |
429 |
477 |
239 |
|
Offaly |
161 |
219 |
219 |
189 |
199 |
|
Roscommon |
359 |
388 |
196 |
538 |
504 |
|
Sligo |
26 |
364 |
402 |
139 |
13 |
|
Tipperary |
316 |
359 |
266 |
296 |
444 |
|
Waterford |
67 |
114 |
31 |
145 |
52 |
|
Westmeath |
2 |
299 |
200 |
153 |
254 |
|
Wexford |
137 |
113 |
246 |
305 |
215 |
|
Wicklow |
173 |
71 |
124 |
31 |
234 |
