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GLAS Payments

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 February 2018

Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Ceisteanna (66)

Bobby Aylward

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66. Deputy Bobby Aylward asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of delayed GLAS payments for 2017 to persons in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6668/18]

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The GLAS scheme is the most popular scheme ever run under a Rural Development Programme in Ireland. The original target of 50,000 participants was surpassed well ahead of the targeted date - such is the popularity of the scheme. Given that the first approvals under the scheme run from 1 October 2015 it is a remarkable achievement to have exceeded this target within a period of 15 months. GLAS 2017 advance payments have now issued in just under 43,800 cases, representing 93% of all farmers that are eligible for the payment. This payment is worth over €157m to Irish farmers. Payments are continuing every week.

GLAS payments cannot issue until all regulatory requirements are met. Each GLAS payment claim must be put through a suite of checks for each action and where any individual check fails the issues must be investigated and resolved before being cleared for payment.

In addition to the checks outlined above, in approximately 2,700 cases, applicants remain ineligible for payment until they complete the steps they must take before the Department can process their payment. The general issues preventing payments taking place include the non-submission of nutrient management plans, commonage management plans, low emission slurry spreading forms, rare breeds forms and 2017 BPS application issues that remain to be resolved. My Department is communicating further with those affected to prevent further delays to payments.

Details of GLAS payments to Carlow and Kilkenny applicants are as follows.

 

GLAS 1

 

GLAS 2

 

GLAS 3

 

 

Total

 

County

Advance Paid

Advance Not Paid

Advance Paid

Advance Not Paid

Advance Paid

Advance Not Paid

Cases

Advance Paid

Advance Not Paid

Carlow

246

31

107

20

116

10

530

469

61

Kilkenny

380

48

181

26

159

31

825

720

105

 

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