The total amount dispensed to CAP beneficiaries has been disclosed as €1.8bn. This was allocated to 129,000 beneficiaries.
Details of the payments have been published by the Department of Agriculture, under an EU regulation that requires annual publication of beneficiaries’ names, counties and amounts they received.
Stud farms, farmers, colleges, a concrete company and legal entities benefitted from payments under the Common Agriculture Policy last year.
The published payment details were made between October 2020 and October 2021.
A database of all the CAP recipients can be viewed. See the CAP Beneficiaries Publication here.
One of the biggest beneficiaries was horse-breeding and racing operation Godolphin Ireland UC in Co Kildare. Owned by Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, it received direct payments of €218,000.
Other amounts include distribution to a 2,000-acre stud farm, Derrinstown Stud Ltd, which is also located in Kildare – it received €101,000, plus the Gurteen agricultural college in Co Tipperary, whose total sum was €108,000.
Glasson Concrete Ltd, which is based in Co Westmeath, were allocated a Common Agriculture Policy payment of €120,000.
University College Dublin and Teagasc also benefitted from CAP funds.
To read more about the initial drafting of the CAP, see here.