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Agriculture Scheme Applications

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 30 September 2020

Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Ceisteanna (278)

Brendan Griffin

Ceist:

278. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to streamline the grant process for cattle underpasses, simplifying the administration process and making the scheme attractive to all farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27601/20]

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There are a wide variety of items available under the suite of seven measures under TAMS II. However, funding for cattle underpasses are not included. The financial allocation in respect of TAMS for the full Rural Development Programme period is €395m. To date, total expenditure, including transitional expenditure, has reached €243m with committments of an additional €130m made to scheme participants who have yet to draw down those commitments.

31,729 applications have been approved under the scheme. All outstanding approvals issued represent potential outstanding liabilities for my Department and we must have a budget in place to pay these claims. As a result, it is not possible to consider adding additional items such as cattle underpasses to the comprehensive list of investment items already available under TAMS II.

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