Over €1.5m has been issued in GLAS payments by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine during the past week.

The statistics show that payments have been issued to 428 GLAS applicants in the latest run of payments.

GLAS payments totalled €1,504,062 this week; an average payment of just over €3,500 was issued to farmers.

A total of 32,549 applicants have now been issued with payments, which is equal to a total payout of €115,683,615.

This means that 88.4% of the total number of GLAS applicants have now been issued with a payment, leaving 11.6% of applicants waiting.

The Department has confirmed to Agriland that, following the latest run of payments, 4,265 applicants remain to be paid.

It has previously confirmed that it is working through the remaining cases and that payments are being issued on a weekly basis.

County-by-county breakdown of GLAS payments

At the end of last week, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, revealed a detailed county-by-county breakdown of the payments made under the GLAS scheme.

Minister Creed released the information in response to a number of questions from Fianna Fail’s Agriculture Spokesperson Charlie McConalogue.

The tabular breakdown included payments up until Friday, March 24, so it does not include the latest run of payments.

The number of applicants, in receipt of GLAS 1 and GLAS 2, who received 85% of their total 2016 payment by the end of last week, are detailed in the table below.

Statistics for the number of applicants who have passed all pre-payment validations (PPV) and are awaiting their 2016 payment, as well as the number of applicants yet to receive a payment, are also included.

GLAS county by county

Applicants from counties Galway and Mayo accounted for close to 19% of the total number of applications to both GLAS 1 and GLAS 2.

A payment rate of close to 85% had been achieved in both of these counties by the end of last week, which had a combined total of 6,943 recipients.