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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (27 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: Where a valid REPS 4 application has been submitted, advance payments of 75% under the EU regulations governing REPS 4 can issue only when all administrative checks on all 2008 applications for REPS 4 and the Single Payment Scheme are completed. The balancing 25% payment will follow when all 2008 REPS on-farm inspections have taken place. Following the resolution of industrial action in...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (27 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 7th May 2008. This application was selected for and was the subject of a ground eligibility and cross compliance inspection. The file is currently being processed and payment will issue shortly. The delay in this case arose because of the need to clarify a number of issues...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (27 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: The person named applied for the Suckler Welfare Scheme on 15 January 2008. Each applicant is obliged to submit data in respect of animal events for beef calves born during 2008, e.g. disbudding, meal introduction and weaning. These mainly consist of dates, with the date of weaning the most important, as it triggers the payment process. To date, 17 calves have been tagged and registered,...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (26 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: Coillte Teoranta was established as a private commercial company under the Forestry Act, 1988 and commenced operation on 1 January 1989. As the legislation provides that all of the shares in the company are held by the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, it operates under the aegis of my Department. On vesting day, Coillte Teoranta took over the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2008 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 9 May 2008. Payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme commenced on 24 September, with payments issuing in respect of those cases cleared for payment at that stage. Payments continue to issue as further cases subsequently become clear. The application of the person named was...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: The person named is an applicant under the Farm Waste Management Scheme. His application for payment is currently being examined and a decision will be made in regard to the application as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Poultry Industry: Poultry Industry (26 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: A meeting of the Poultry Expert Group has been arranged for 9 December. The Group's 2007 report focused on a range of issues including labelling, environment protection, welfare legislation and feeding stuffs. I have asked the Group to reconvene so that it can review its recommendations in the light of developments over the last year and consider what further issues warrant consideration....

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 12th May 2008. This application was selected for and was the subject of a ground eligibility and cross compliance inspection. The position is that the file is currently being processed and payment will issue shortly. The delay in this case arose because of the need to clarify...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on the 12th May 2008. The Single Payment application for the person named has been fully processed and the payment due under the Single Payment Scheme will issue shortly.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 1st May 2008. This application was selected for and was the subject of a ground eligibility and cross compliance inspection. This file is now processed and the advance payment under the Single Payment Scheme issued on the 6 November 2008 with the balancing payment due to issue...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: The application under the Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 30th April 2008. The application was selected for a remote sensing satellite inspection. When the result of this inspection has been returned and any matters arising have been dealt with, the application will immediately be further processed with a view to payment issuing shortly thereafter.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: The budget for 2009 was framed against the background of a serious deterioration in the national finances. Difficult choices had to be made in allocating the resources available to me in 2009. I made these decisions in the best interests of the sector as a whole, following detailed analysis of my Department's programme of expenditure and careful consideration of the options available....

Written Answers — Foreshore Licences: Foreshore Licences (25 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: In February 2007 Oriel Windfarm Limited applied for a foreshore lease for the purpose of constructing an offshore wind farm in Dundalk Bay of up to 330 MW potential consisting of 55 turbines with tower height of up to 100m and rotor diameter of up to 120m. Negotiations between Oriel Windfarm Ltd and my Department regarding the terms of a proposed lease are at an advanced stage. Once these...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2008 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 30 April 2008. Following processing of this application, an advance payment of €10,076.15 issued on 20 October 2008 to the bank account of the person named, via Electronic Funds Transfer. Balancing payments under the Scheme are scheduled to commence issuing on 1 December 2008.

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (25 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: Included in the Budget statement by the Minister for Finance on the 14th October was the decision to transfer the marketing functions of Bord Iascaigh Mhara to An Bord Bia and to merge the National Council for Forestry Research and Development (COFORD) into my Department. The Government's initiative in transferring the seafood marketing and promotion functions to Bord Bia will ensure the...

Written Answers — Foreshore Licences: Foreshore Licences (25 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: An application to purchase an area of reclaimed foreshore was made by Carroll's Ballyhack Boatyard Ltd on 18 October 2006. The application was made in respect of an area comprising 0.75 acres approximately, in respect of which the company holds a foreshore lease. This lease was issued for a period of 35 years from 1 April 1999. In accordance with current policy, my Department does not...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: Under the EU Regulations governing REPS, a participant must make an application for each annual payment. Failure to do so means that the contract must be terminated and all payments recovered, unless exceptional circumstances apply. In this case, my Department wrote to the person named on 13 September 2001, advising him that he had to lodge his third year payment application form by 31...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: Where a valid REPS 4 application has been submitted, advance payments of 75% under the EU regulations governing REPS 4 can issue only when all administrative checks on all 2008 applications for REPS 4 and the Single Payment Scheme are completed. The balancing 25% payment will follow when all 2008 REPS on-farm inspections have taken place. Following the resolution of industrial action in...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2008 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 12 May 2008. During processing of this application, issues arose regarding the eligibility of one of the land parcels declared, which have now been resolved. Payment will issue shortly to the person named.

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (25 Nov 2008)

Brendan Smith: My colleague, Minister Tony Killeen has already received a range of diverse views from industry representatives and operators regarding how any additional mackerel quota for Ireland should be allocated. In that context, he is consulting with the industry representatives and has arranged a meeting of all interested parties for tomorrow 26th of November with a view to establishing whether an...