Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

The information requested relates to penalties applied to farmers in relation to burning in the upland and lowland hills on lands not then cultivated. Specifically the information sought is the following: 1. The total number of farmers successfully penalised in both 2017 and 2018 for burning between March 1-August 31. 2. The total Euro amount of the penalty applied to each farmer. 3. The total number of hectares of land for which penalties applied in both years. 4. The total number of appeals to penalties by farmers in both years. 5. The total amount of successful appeals for both years. 6. The resulting successful euro amount of penalties applied. 7. The number of farmers who were penalised for ineligible land due to burning the previous year. Such information also to include: o Details of all meetings relating to the above, including un-minuted meetings, and is to include details of attendees, durations, location and agenda, matters discussed, items reviewed and/or circulated. o All items attached to paper files, paper files, documents, “post-it” type notes, notes, inclusions etc. o All items attached to electronic files and emails, including file attachments, forwarded documents, associated replies or originating queries, database records and files referred to, and the content of URLs referenced if not publicly available