Agriculture Schemes

Thursday, 15 January 2026

Questions (477, 478)

David Cullinane

Question:

477. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in County Waterford awaiting income support and other scheme payments at year-end 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [3028/26]

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David Cullinane

Question:

478. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in each county awaiting income support and other scheme payments at year-end 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [3029/26]

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Written answers

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I propose to take Questions Nos. 477 and 478 together.

The information requested by the Deputy is currently being collated and will be forwarded to the Deputy when it is available.

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Orders.

The attached table outlines instances of farmers awaiting income supports at the end of each year, with totals incorporating all support schemes provided by my Department. The numbers relating to individual farmers are not available. A farmer may be counted more than once in the total figures if they are a participant eligible for payment in more than one scheme, which is most cases they are.

For some schemes in 2025, inspection cases are still being processed, and until these cases have their inspection finalised, payments will not issue.

In the majority of cases contained the table, the reason a case is unpaid is that the Department were awaiting information from the applicants or their advisors.

County	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Carlow	14	9	13	31	82	201
Cavan	37	43	42	58	53	362
Clare	70	84	64	62	91	406
Cork	156	155	136	263	371	1398
Donegal	34	26	20	97	119	1299
Dublin	2	2	2	5	48	80
Galway	76	95	75	155	281	1330
Kerry	100	96	69	125	150	988
Kildare	13	6	13	36	91	310
Kilkenny	45	50	44	80	116	290
Laois	29	21	28	55	99	287
Leitrim	44	42	37	54	51	356
Limerick	52	59	53	88	89	411
Longford	38	37	46	42	56	202
Louth	7	3	8	26	78	144
Mayo	79	75	70	148	191	1506
Meath	27	27	29	71	172	403
Monaghan	16	17	17	29	50	254
Offaly	34	36	34	60	61	241
Roscommon	55	51	51	92	92	393
Sligo	42	35	20	52	56	368
Tipperary	63	70	54	129	185	752
Waterford	37	37	22	74	53	313
Westmeath	31	24	30	68	73	251
Wexford	30	38	21	91	266	437
Wicklow	23	29	19	49	80	336

Question No. 478 answered with Question No. 477.