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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 17 May 2010. As the initial validation checks on the application revealed that two of the land parcels declared had been over-claimed, a query letter was issued on 12 October 2010. A map of the area concerned was enclosed with the letter and the person named invited to examine the boundaries and either...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 17 May 2010. Single Payment Scheme advance payments of 50% commenced issuing on 18 October in respect of those lands cleared for payment at that stage. A number of parcels listed on the application of the person named required digitisation; immediately this process is complete, provided no errors are...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received from the person named on the 17 May 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Full Cross Compliance Inspection. The inspection process is completed and the application has now been fully processed. Payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme will issue within...

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (4 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The person named is a participant in REPS 3 under which annual payments issue after the anniversary date for commencement of the contract. The anniversary date for the person named is 1st December 2010 and payment will issue as soon as possible after that date subject to the submission of a claim.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 15 April 2010. Payment under the Single Payment Scheme for the person named was processed by my Department on 18 October 2010. This amount consists of an advance payment of 50% of his valid payments under the scheme for 2010. A balancing payment will issue on 1st December....

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 17 May 2010. A number of parcels listed on the application of the person named required re-digitising; immediately this process is complete, provided no errors are identified, the applications for Single Payment and Disadvantaged Area payment will be further processed, with a...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: Preparation of the Animal Health and Welfare Bill, which gives effect to commitments in the Programme for Government and the Renewed Programme for Government on issues relating to animal health and welfare, is ongoing in my Department. The new bill will consolidate and update a wide range of existing legislation to ensure that the welfare of all animals, including non-farm animals, is...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 17 May 2010. The 50% advance payment under the Single Payment Scheme, which issued on 18 October and the 75% advance payment under the Disadvantaged Area Scheme, which issued on 13 September, were on the basis of those parcels cleared for payment at that stage. A number of parcels...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 1 May 2010. The 50% advance payment under the Single Payment Scheme, which issued on 18 October was on the basis of those parcels cleared for payment at that stage. A number of parcels listed on the application of the person named require re-digitisation; immediately this process is complete, provided no...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The person named submitted an application on 17 May 2010 requesting the transfer of 0.98 standard entitlements to another farmer. Payment under the Single Payment Scheme cannot issue to a person who is transferring entitlements until the transfer is complete. As the farmer to whom the entitlements were being transferred was not the owner of a herd-number, it was not possible to complete the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The person named submitted an application on 17 May 2010 requesting the transfer of 3.41 standard entitlements to another farmer. Payment under the Single Payment Scheme cannot issue to a person who is transferring entitlements until the transfer is complete. As the farmer to whom the entitlements were being transferred was not the owner of a herd-number, it was not possible to complete the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 17 May 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Full Cross Compliance Inspection. The inspection process is complete and the results are now being processed. Under EU regulations governing the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme//Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 14 April 2010, a number of parcels listed on which required digitising. This process was recently completed which allowed the 50% advance of the Single Payment and the full payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issue to the person named within recent days. The EU...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 17 May 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Animal Identification Inspection. The inspection process is complete and the results are now being processed. Under EU regulations governing the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and the...

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The terms of the FEPS scheme states that an applicant for a FEPS premium, must, at the time of application for the FEPS premium each year, also be in REPS. Unfortunately, these applicants' REPS membership ceased before the end of their 5-year FEPS term, making them ineligible to receive further FEPS payments after 2009. On this basis, as the terms of the scheme are explicit, unfortunately the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 10 May 2010. The person named submitted their application with 3 land parcels requiring re-digitisation. My Department is currently completing this process for the person named. However, queries have arisen regarding a dual claim and an over-claim. A letter issued from my...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: Both the Beef and Sheepmeat Fund and the Dairy Investment Fund are financed by the Exchequer. No EU funding is involved. The Funds were announced by my Department and promoted by Enterprise Ireland through engagement with the respective industries. Applications for both funds were carefully considered and all eligible projects were assessed and evaluated according to strict commercial and...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The original Government decision on the decentralisation of my Department was that 600 headquarter posts would move to Portlaoise; some 100 posts in the local offices in Cork city would move to Fermoy; and up to 100 posts in the laboratories in Cork and Limerick would move to Macroom. The Government announced, in 2008, that the moves of my Department's offices to Fermoy and Macroom had been...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application for ex-gratia funding has been received from the organisation in question. Provision of ex-gratia assistance is subject to the availability of funds and the application will be considered in this context and having regard to competing claims for financial assistance submitted by other animal welfare bodies.

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: My Department operates numbers utilising the Lo-Call designation 1890 and has noted that the rates charged for 1890 (Lo-call) numbers may vary among different service providers. In many of its advertisements standard geographic phone numbers are used in addition to the Lo-call designations. My Department will ensure as far as possible that all of its advertisements will continue to provide...