EU payments made to farmers and companies in Ireland in 2015 have been published by the Department of Agriculture this morning.

It comes as Teagasc recently revealed that Irish farm incomes are heavily reliant on EU direct payments. Its figures show that the average EU payment to Irish famers was €17,000 and it accounted for 64% of income.

Under EU regulations, the Department of Agriculture is legally obliged to publish the details of all payments above €1,250.

Approximately 130,000 Irish farmers and other entities involved in agriculture receive EU payments totalling in the region of €1.8 billion each year.

Glydee Farms (majority owned by Larry Goodman) received €238,000 while the Goodman-owned Branganstown Farm received €245,000; Kepak Farm received €220,000. The Queally brothers, John and Peter, received €259,000. Teagasc Carlow received €100,000, while Teagasc Grange received €119,000 and Teagasc Cork (three locations) received €124,000.

Bord Bia received €1.6m, Ornua €432,000 and the National Dairy Council received €261,000. The Holy Ghost Fathers’ Rockwell Farm in Tipperary received €172,000.

Just over 400 people in Cork received €29m, or over €50,000 each, and 205 in Meath, while just 22 farmers in Mayo received more than €50,000.

Fourteen Irish people living outside the country received payments totally €73,000, while 297 people in Northern Ireland claimed CAP payments in the Republic to the value of €2m.

While the full details of farmers addresses are not being published, the move to publish details of farm payments has been opposed by farming organisations, who have said previously it is a breach of confidentiality and that farmers’ security was being put a risk.