The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has published the annual list of who benefitted from payments under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the 2024 programme year.

The department is required to publish the information before the end of May in each year following the year in question.

The data, published today (Monday, May 26) outlines how much funding was received by each beneficiary across all aspects of CAP across Pillar I and Pillar II.

The beneficiaries can be legal persons, or an entity, such as a farm that operates with a business name.

The data covers the CAP expenditure period of October 16, 2023 to October 15, 2024.

Therefore, the publication today is the first such publication that covers an entire year of the current 2023-2027 CAP under Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan, as last year's publication (for 2023) included the last couple of months of 2022, which was part of a 'rolled-over' CAP programme that officially came to an end in 2020.

For this reason, there are some differences in how funding is recorded under various measures. For example, in this year's publication, the Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) under the current Strategic Plan is listed separately to direct payments, as 2024 is the first year in which BISS payments commenced.

In last year's CAP beneficiaries publication, neither BISS, nor its predecessor the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), were listed as separate items; instead, BPS was captured under the direct payments measure, along with the Young Farmers' Scheme, Greening, and Protein Aid.

In the data published this week for 2024, the direct payments measure is made up of residual or late payments to beneficiaries under the previous CAP programme.

Looking first at those payments, €181,541.42 was paid to 'Reps' of Harry O'Farrell, of Co. Roscommon.

This was followed by 'Reps' of Matthew & Alan Ward, of Co. Clare, with €136,829.19; and 'Reps' of Deirdre Bourns, of Co. Galway, with €113,422.47.

The top 10 recipients of direct payments for 2024 are outlined in the table below:

Turning to CAP payments listed under the 2024 BISS measure, the highest amount paid out was €120,255.98 to Tallon Farm, of Co. Meath.

The next highest payment was to a recipient recorded as 'Ghillsdltd Tbrownaodonovan', of Co. Cork, which received €119,865.30.

The third highest BISS payment went to Park Farms Partnership in Co. Carlow, which received €115,866.86.

The top 10 beneficiaries of BISS for 2024 are outlined in the table below: