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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Size (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: he following table gives a breakdown of farm size drawn from the data in the CSO’s 2007 Farm Structures Survey, the most recent such survey. This data will be updated in full when detailed results from the 2010 Census of Agriculture are released later this year. Farm Size (ha) Number of Farms % of Farms < 5 8,400 6.55% 5 to <10 16,200 12.64% 10 to <20 30,500...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Correspondence (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: The land the subject of this case is the subject of a private law matter between the person named and a third party as to the ownership of the lands. I am not in a position to comment until the private law matter has been resolved.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Íocaíochtaí Deontas (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: Is iarratasóir é an té atá i gceist faoi Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste 2012. Faoi láthair, tá an t-iarratasóir sin ar dhuine de roinnt daoine, a bhfuil tionchar ag an gceanglas maidir le dlús stocála 0.3 d'aonaid bheostoic in aghaidh gach heicteár foráiste ar a laghad ar a gcásanna agus a rinne iarratas...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Íocaíochtaí Deontas (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: Is iarratasóir é an té atá i gceist faoi Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste 2012. Faoi láthair, tá an t-iarratasóir sin ar dhuine de roinnt daoine, a bhfuil tionchar ag an gceanglas maidir le dlús stocála 0.3 d'aonaid bheostoic in aghaidh gach heicteár foráiste ar a laghad ar a gcásanna agus a rinne iarratas...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: An application under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 10 March 2012. However, payment has not yet issued as, at this stage, the holding of the person named has not yet satisfied the Scheme minimum stocking density requirement which have been notified to all Scheme applicants. Immediately the holding of the person named is confirmed as having met this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: An application under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 23 April 2012. However, payment has not yet issued as, at this stage, the holding of the person named has not yet satisfied the Scheme minimum stocking density requirements, which have been notified to all Scheme applicants. Immediately the holding concerned is confirmed as having met these...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: An application under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 23 April 2012. However, payment has not yet issued as, at this stage, it has not been possible to verify that one of the Terms and Conditions governing the 2012 Scheme, relating to maintaining an annual average of 0.15 livestock units per forage acre declared, has been satisfied. Once it has been...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: As processing of the application concerned has recently been completed, payment will shortly issue to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: While an application under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 30 April 2012, payment has not issued as the conditions of the Scheme have not been satisfied, at this stage. The Terms and Conditions governing the Scheme require, inter alia , that all equine premises must be registered with the Department in accordance with S.I No 8 of 2012 (Disease of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: Processing of the application concerned has recently been completed and payments under the Single Payment Scheme and Disadvantaged Areas Scheme will shortly issue to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scéim na Limistéar Mhíbhuntáiste (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: Is iarratasóir é an té atá i gceist faoi Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste 2012. Faoi láthair, tá an t-iarratasóir sin ar dhuine de roinnt daoine, a bhfuil tionchar ag an gceanglas maidir le dlús stocála 0.3 d'aonaid bheostoic in aghaidh gach heicteár foráiste ar a laghad ar a gcásanna agus a rinne iarratas...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: The person named applied under Category B and New Entrant in 2005, New Entrant in 2006, 2007 and 2009 and under Category A in 2008 and 2010 of the National Reserve Schemes. It should be noted that the rules governing the single payment scheme stipulate that an applicant who is found to be eligible under more than one category in the Reserve may only receive an allocation of entitlements under...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: As processing of the application concerned has recently been completed, payment will shortly issue to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: As processing of the application concerned has recently been completed, payment will shortly issue to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: The application concerned was one of a number selected for inspection in order to comply with EU requirements. The inspection and related processes verified that there were over claims of greater than 20% of the area determined. Application of the relevant penalty provisions results in no payment being due in the current year. My Department has advised the applicant of the findings and of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: Since May 2011, a notification has been placed on my Department’s website inviting expressions of interest from persons interested in being appointed to the boards of State Bodies under the aegis of my Department. Also on 7th September of this year I placed an advertisement in the National Newspapers inviting expressions of interest. These applications will be considered when...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: I have appointed chairpersons to four State Bodies under the aegis of my Department since March 2011. The three State Bodies are: An Bord Bia - €20,520; Bord Iascaigh Mhara - €11,970; Bord na gCon - €21,600; Coillte - €21,600. The Chairs appointed have yet to be called before the relevant Oireachtas committee but are aware of this requirement.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: Payments under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme began, on schedule, on 26 September and, to date, payments worth €179.4 million, have issued to 81,183 applicants, which compares favourably to previous years payments. I can confirm that payments runs are continuing on a twice-weekly basis, with individual cases being paid immediately they are confirmed as having satisfied the Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: The Commission proposal is to move to flat rates of payment per hectare, on a national or regional basis by 2019. My Department has conducted an analysis of the impact of this proposal on Ireland. The results are set out in the paragraphs under. I would emphasise, however, that these figures are not intended to be predictive of what individual farmers will get. Rather the modelling conducted...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (23 Oct 2012)

Simon Coveney: An application under the Single Payment Scheme /Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 24th April 2012. In order to comply with EU requirements, the application was one of a number which was selected for inspection and therefore payment could not be made pending the outcome of this process. Arising from the findings of this inspection, it has been necessary...