The number of investments approved under the current Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) has surpassed 44,000.

In the latest scheme payments update, up to April 17, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine confirmed that 44,055 approvals have now been issued under the current TAMS.

Of these, a total of 19,620 payment applications have been submitted, and 16,689 payments have been made.

Last week, €3,190,588 was paid out under TAMS, bringing the total amount of payments since its first year of 2023 to €152.283 million.

In other scheme payment updates, in Pillar I of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), €494,960 was paid out last week under the 2025 Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) and the Complimentary Redistributive Income Support for Sustainability (CRISS).

The number of farmers that have been paid under the 2025 BISS and CRISS is 118,648, and the total amount paid is €842.89 million.

This figure includes €36.7 million for the 2025 Complimentary Income Support for Young Farmers (CISYF) and the 2025 National Reserve of €3 million.

In the 2025 eco-scheme, €49,287 was paid last week, with a total of €305.37 million now paid to 118,332 farmers.

Moving back to Pillar II (which includes TAMS), €30.93 million was paid last week to participants in the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES).

It is understood that this constitutes the majority of the €37 million in ACRES balancing payments announced by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Martin Heydon yesterday (Monday, April 20).

According to the minister's announcement yesterday, a total of €783.5 million has been paid since the scheme commenced in January 2023.

Payment updates across other key schemes, as of last week, include:

2025 Beef Welfare Scheme - €28.09 million paid to 24,298 farmers;
2025 CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) Dairy Beef Welfare Scheme - €5.99 million paid to 9,175 farmers;
2025 National Dairy Beef Weighing Scheme - €4.092 million paid to 8,153;
2025 Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) - €52.45 million paid to 15,717 farmers;
2025 Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) and Areas of Specific Constraint (ASC) - €246.56 million paid to 97,994 farmers (€132,940 paid last week);
2025 National Sheep Welfare Scheme - €21.21 million paid to 16,727 farmers;
2025 Sheep Improvement Scheme - €18.15 million paid to 16,757 farmers;
2025 Organic Farming Scheme (OFS) - €57.31 million paid with 5,048 farmers receiving the 2025 advance payment so far (€127,093 paid last week);
2025 Protein Aid Scheme - €9.68 million paid to 1,618 farmers;
2025 Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) - €12.83 million paid to 2,768 farmers;
Tillage Sustainability Support Payment 2026 - €29.21 million paid to 8,605 farmers;
2025 Red Clover Scheme - €2.165 million paid to 1,614 farmers;
2025 Multi Species Sward (MSS) Scheme - €750,000 paid to 845 farmers.