Farm Safety Capital Investment Scheme

The Farm Safety Capital Investment Scheme (FSCIS) provides an incentive to farmers to avail of investments to improve their own safety and that of their farm.

The scheme is open to farmers who have a minimum of 5 hectares declared under the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) or the Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) or equivalent in the year of application or preceding year, or, generate a minimum of 20 production units from farming, for Equine Investments only have and a minimum of 3 equines declared on the Equine Census or equivalent in the year preceding.

Grant aid will only be paid on approved, completed and eligible expenditure and shall be paid at the rate of 60% up to the applicable maximum investment ceiling of €90,000 per holding.

In the case of an application by two or more eligible partners in a partnership registered on this department’s Register of Farm Partnership the maximum eligible investment ceiling shall be increased to €160,000.

Multiple applications per tranche are permissible. However, the minimum amount of investment which is eligible for approval under this Scheme is €2,000 per application.