Departmental Schemes

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Ceisteanna (879)

David Cullinane

Ceist:

879. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of claims made; the total cost of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6455/23]

Amharc ar fhreagra

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

It is not possible to provide the information requested by the Deputy in the required time. The information is currently being compiled and I will forward it to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51.

The Minister’s earlier reply stated that it was not possible to provide the information requested by the Deputy in the required time, and he would arrange for a reply to be forwarded directly to you as soon as it was available. I now wish to advise you that the information requested is set out in the attached table. These are schemes outside of the normal statutory compensation under the Disease of Animal Act.

Year	Details of compensation or redress schemes	Number of Claims	Total Cost €
2001	Lost At Sea Scheme awarded free capacity (Gross Tonnes, KiloWatts) to applicants whose fishing vessels had sank between the reference years for the scheme of 1980 and 1990	6	Free tonnage capacity
2008	Sugar Restructuring Aid Scheme	3,530	62,932,523
2009	Fodder Aid for Flood Damage Scheme	257	525,359
2010	Frost Damage Compensation Scheme for potato and vegetable producers	180	3,993,414
2016	Emergency Flood Damage Relief 2016	47	97,909
2017	Flood Damage Relief Measure 2017	257	643,650
2017	Weather Related Crop Loss Support Measure	91	406,878
2018	Lost-At-Sea Scheme ex-gratia payment following recommendation by the Ombudsman’s office	1	245,570
2022/2023	Fur Farming Compensation Scheme *	0	0
2023	Shass Landslide Scheme*	0	0

* No payment has issued to date