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Rural Development Programme Funding

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 29 March 2018

Thursday, 29 March 2018

Ceisteanna (315)

Charlie McConalogue

Ceist:

315. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the financial allocations on an annual basis under the 2014-2020 RDP for schemes (details supplied) in tabular form; the annual amount expended on these schemes in each year since established; the number of active participants in the schemes; and the number of applicants that have withdrawn from same. [14842/18]

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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the tables:

Table 1 – Voted Allocations for Schemes 2014-2018, Expenditure 2014-2017

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Knowledge Transfer Scheme

GLAS

Beef Data and Genomics Programme

TAMS II

Sheep Welfare Scheme

Hen Harrier Programme

Allocation 2015

0

20,000,000

35,000,000

0

0

0

Expenditure 2015

0

11,452,500

34,692,000

0

0

0

Allocation 2016

0

139,500,000

52,000,000

28,000,000

0

0

Expenditure 2016

0

102,615,247

61,800,000

3,971,000

0

0

Allocation 2017

22,821,000

228,500,000

49,000,000

49,832,000

17,000,000

3,000,000

Expenditure 2017

13,784,000

195,583,187

47,137,000

31,256,000

15,851,000

717,000

Allocation 2018

23,000,000

203,000,000

49,500,000

69,943,000

20,000,000

3,500,000

The above are the total allocations and expenditure for the schemes. In a few cases, small parts of the allocation and expenditure for schemes are not co-funded.

Table 2 – No. of participants and withdrawals

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Knowledge Transfer Scheme

GLAS

Beef Data and Genomics Programme

TAMS II

Sheep Welfare Scheme

Hen Harrier Programme

Number of active participants

19,100

49,404

24,788

12,849

20,845

366

Number of applicants that have withdrawn

260

2,193

5,909

300

340

0

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