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Waterford Proteins, part of Larry Goodman’s ABP Food Group, received €3.4m to collect fallen animals, according to the new EU-wide registry of state aid payments.
This was within €600,000 of the nation’s top grants earners, IDA-supported multinationals Liebherr, a crane manufacturer, and Gencell Biosystems, a pharma firm.
Co Wicklow-based Dublin Products, part of the Ronan Group, collected €2.2m under the fallen animal scheme last year, while College Proteins, a Co Meath company whose directors are John and Martin Gilroy, received €2.1m. The Foyle Food Group was paid €844,313 for its fallen animal collections in the Republic.
The fallen animals scheme administered by the Department of Agriculture subsidises knackeries to collect all dead cattle over 48 months. They must be BSE-tested and destroyed safely, while farmers pay a maximum fee of €54.03 for each such animal collected. The scheme also contributes to the collection and scrapie testing of fallen sheep.
Horticulture grants
The state aid transparency list, which covers payments made since 1 July 2016, also includes a number of businesses and individual farmers receiving Government grants for investment in horticulture. The Little Bridge Flowers, a Co Cork company trading as Spring Nurseries and directed by Lynda and Patrick Ring, secured a €612,671 investment grant, the only one above the mandatory publication threshold of €500,000.
Some 59 other farms, including mushroom growers, have obtained such grants ranging from €60,000 to €400,000 in the past year.
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