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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: An application in respect of the 2017 Basic Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 3 May 2017. Advance payment issued to the person named on 16th October. Processing of this application is now complete and the balancing payment has issued to the nominated bank account of the person named. The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: An application in respect of the 2017 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) was received from the person named on 18 April 2017.  An advance payment in respect of the eligible land declared issued on 16 October with the balancing payment issuing on 1 December 2017. In addition to the eligible land on which payment has been made, the application also includes a declaration of afforested...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The above named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and has received payments in respect of the 2015 scheme year as well as the 2016 advance payment. An inspection was carried out in relation to the GLAS participation of the above mentioned. Once the issues relating to the inspection have been finalised the case will move forward...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The applications received from the person named under the 2014 Single Farm Payment, the 2015 and 2016 Basic Payment Schemes have been reviewed. The payment due under the 2016 Basic Payment Scheme issued on 19 January.  A supplementary payment due under the 2014 Single Payment Scheme will issue in the coming weeks to the nominated bank account of the person named. An official from my...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 3 with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2017. Administrative checks take place on all GLAS claims.  All cases must clear these checks before payment can issue. This case has now cleared all validation checks and the 2017 advance payment will issue shortly.  GLAS 2017 advance payments are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: GLAS payments cannot issue until all regulatory requirements are met. 2017 advance payments commenced on schedule in November 2017. Each GLAS payment claim must be put through a suite of checks for each action and where any individual check fails the issues must be investigated and resolved before being cleared for payment. Applications are not processed on a geographic basis and payments...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015. All 2015 and 2016 payments have been paid. While this case has passed most of the validation checks there are still outstanding issues to be clarified.  Department officials have been in direct contact with the applicant regarding what is required.  The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The above named was approved into GLAS 3 with a contract commencement date of 1 January  2017. All GLAS claims must clear all validation checks before payment can be made.  Department officials are working proactively to complete the checks and to issue payments in cleared cases. Once this case clears the validations the 2017 advance payment will be made. GLAS...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2016. All 2016 payments have been paid to the applicant. Administrative checks take place on all actions on each GLAS claim.  All cases must clear these checks before payment can issue. Department officials are working proactively to complete the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015. All 2015 and 2016 payments have been paid to the applicant. Validation checks must be passed on all actions on GLAS claims and all cases must clear these checks before payment can issue. Department officials are working proactively to complete these...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted an application under the 2017 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) on 5 April 2017. In addition, the person named submitted a 2016 Transfer of Entitlements application to my Department seeking the transfer of entitlements by way of gift. Additional information pertaining to the transfer of these entitlements has been requested from...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Contracts Data (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: I wish to inform the Deputy that my Department has no contracts with the named company. As regards the twelve State Bodies under the aegis of my Department, this is an operational matter for the State Bodies themselves. Accordingly I have referred the Deputy's question to the agency for direct reply. In accordance with the new procedures effective September 2016, as notified by the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and has received full payments in respect of the 2015 and 2016 scheme years. The participant's 2017 advance payment is being processed for payment this week.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 2 with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2016. All 2016 payments have been paid to the participant. The 2017 GLAS advance payment has now cleared all validations and it is expected that the payment will issue shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 3 with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2017. Validation checks must be passed on all actions on GLAS claims and all cases must clear these checks before payment can issue. Department officials are working proactively to complete these checks on all claims to allow for the issue of payments. Once this case clears validations the 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The main purpose of the possible legislative amendments currently being considered is to provide for a points system for masters of fishing vessels for serious infringements of the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy, as required by Council Regulation 1224/2009. The draft amending legislation under consideration would also affirm that fishing quotas are a publicly-owned resource, that sea...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Origin Green Programme (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The audit undertaken last year by the EU of the controls applied by Ireland in the organic sector was extremely detailed and was one of a series being undertaken in Member States across Europe. Overall, the audit team concluded that Ireland had a control system in place which laid down a clear division of tasks between competent authority and the various control bodies and made some...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licences (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: My Department has asked the Marine Institute to review the research referred to by the Deputy and to revert on the matter. In relation to a possible moratorium on licensing applications, aquaculture licences are considered by my Department in accordance with the provisions for the 1997 Fisheries (Amendment) Act, the 1933 Foreshore Act and applicable EU legislation. All licensing decisions...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: My Department, as the Competent Authority, delegates the task of certification and inspection, to which organic operators producing, preparing, storing or importing produce from third countries are subject, to approved Organic Control Bodies. This is in accordance with the governing EU regulations. Since 2005, the associated services and obligations of the Organic Control Bodies are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Development (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The Department has five Marine Divisions. These are the Sea Fisheries Administration Division, Sea Fisheries Policy & Management Division, Marine Programmes Division, Marine Engineering Division and the Aquaculture and Foreshore Management Division. The Marine Agencies Governance Unit, located within the Sea Fisheries Policy & Management Division of my Department, is...