Aid shall not be awarded or paid in respect of the following areas:
- Agriculture *;
- Fisheries;
- Conventional retail operations, excluding community based shops and farm shops selling locally produced produce;
- Courses of instruction or training which form the part of normal education programmes or systems at secondary or higher levels. Note: This includes the rural development diploma and degree;
- Loans;
- Working capital (including stock);
- Insurance for project promoters;
- Horticulture (including bee-keeping);
- Payments for gifts, donations or personal entertainments;
- Statutory fines and penalties, criminal fines and damages;
- Legal expenses in respect of litigation;
- Costs associated with meeting a legislative or statutory requirement;
- Planning application fee;
- Reclaimable VAT;
- Improvements/refurbishment of private residential property;
- Projects that already have other EU funding either directly or through a national programme;
- Conventional motor vehicles, including cars, industrial/farm/construction vehicles, vans and buses;
- General maintenance works of public bodies;
- Childcare;
- Health Care;
- Nursing homes;
- Housing
- Race and sport horse industries.
- Greyhound Industry
*LAGs should firstly ascertain if the activity/animal has been covered by any current or previous DAFM scheme. Furthermore, if the activity does not qualify for DAFM funding, that does not automatically mean that it will qualify for LEADER funding as the core activity may still be deemed to be “agriculture” e.g. goat farming, poultry production, fruit, small scale market gardens etc.
