Over €56 million distributed to Leitrim farmers by Department of Agriculture in 2025

Over €56 million was paid out in 2025 in Leitrim in agriculture payments from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The total figure for the county for 2025 amounted to €56,549,467.15. 

This total included over €13.4 million in BISS payments (Basic Income Support for Sustainability), more than €680,000 in TAMS (Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme), over €2.6 million in forestry payments, over €700,000 in Bovine TB compensation, and over €13.4 million in ACRES (Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme) support.

In September, over €6 million was allocated to Leitrim farmers under the Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme, and more recently in November, over €600,000 was distributed between 525 farmers through Sheep Improvement Scheme payments.

Nationally, more than €2.18 billion in payments to farmers and fishers were issued over the course of 2025. 

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Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon, welcomed the scale of payments issued by his Department.

“Understandably, there has been a lot of focus throughout the year on payments made by my Department to farmers. Ireland continues to be one of the earliest to make payments under the CAP within the EU, and to the highest possible number of farmers,” said Minister Heydon.

“I am accordingly very pleased to announce the breadth of payments made by my Department throughout 2025.

!We will continue to work to issue payments as quickly as possible where they are still due, and I would ask farmers who have outstanding queries to respond to these as soon as possible,” he concluded.

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