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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted a Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas’ Scheme application on 25 April 2013. EU Regulations governing the administration of the schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases on farm inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a ground...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted an application under the 2013 Single Payment and Disadvantaged Area Schemes on 12th May 2013. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases, land eligibility inspections, be completed before any payments issue. In order to meet the EU requirements, the application...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 859 and 860 together. An application under the Single Payment / Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 14 May 2013. Processing of this application has recently been finalised with payment due to issue shortly to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: An Application under the 2013 Single Farm Payment Scheme was received from the person named in my Department on the 2nd of May 2013. The 2013 payment issued to the nominated bank account of the person named based on a reduced claimed area. This was discovered following a LPIS review in 2012. Officials from my Department will be in direct contact with the person named to explain the matter in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted an application under the 2013 Single Payment and Disadvantaged Area Schemes on 6th May 2013. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases, land eligibility inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: As processing of the application of the person named under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was recently finalised, payment will shortly issue, directly to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: The data requested by the deputy relating to payments to SPS applicants who have claimed commonages is set out in tabular form for 2011, 2012 and 2013 and the average total advance payment to each farmer in 2013 to date. COUNTY 2011 Paid 2012 Paid 2013 Paid AVG Paid 2013 CARLOW 175 172 143 €5,985.01 CAVAN 131 132 108 €3,591.62 CLARE 370 368 340...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: Under the Direct Aid Schemes, farmers are obliged to declare only eligible land when making their applications, are to exclude ineligible features, such as roads, buildings, dense scrub, etc. These claims are then recorded on my Department’s Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS). Given the importance of the LPIS database in underpinning direct aid payments worth in excess of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted an application under the 2013 Single Payment and Disadvantaged Area Schemes on 8th May 2013. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases, land eligibility inspections, be completed before any payments issue. In order to meet the EU requirements, the application...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted a Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme application on 13 May 2013. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases on-farm inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a ground eligibility inspection....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted an application under the 2013 Single Payment and Disadvantaged Area Schemes on 10th May 2013. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases, land eligibility inspections, be completed before any payments issue. In order to meet the EU requirements, the application...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Electricity Transmission Network (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: Ireland is the 4th largest breeder of thoroughbred horses in the world, and the industry makes a significant contribution to rural employment and the economy generally. I have regular contact with the sector and I can assure the Deputy that I am committed to its growth and development as a flagship industry for Ireland, including through the development of overseas markets for the sector in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payment in respect of the 2013 Single Payment Scheme was made on 29 October 2013, directly to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Technology Adoption Programme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: In order to qualify for the 2012 Beef Technology Adoption Programme, applicants were required to have satisfied one of the following criteria: - Farmers with suckler cows must be current participants in the Suckler Cow Welfare Scheme (AWRBS), that is, they must have received payments under the Scheme on 2010 born calves and have applied to participate in ICBF HerdPlus prior to applying for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences Applications (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: The provision in the Bill providing for an exemption from the felling licence requirement for up to 15 cubic meters of timber annually is restricted to trees growing on the holding that are outside of a forest, are not in a decorative avenue or ring of trees and, importantly, are for use exclusively on the holding. The exemption is not intended to provide for the supply of timber off the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licences Applications (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: Two applications were made to my Department by the applicant on May and June 2012 for aquaculture licences to cultivate oysters on sites in outer Bantry Bay. In accordance with standard procedures the applications are currently under consideration by my Department under the provisions of the 1997 Fisheries (Amendment) Act and the 1933 Foreshore Act. The applications have been circulated to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: An application under the 2013 Single Farm Payment Scheme was received from the named person in my Department on the 13th of May 2013. Under the Terms and Conditions of the Single Farm Payment Scheme applicants under the Scheme must possess entitlements before payment can issue. My Department has no record of entitlements under the herd number of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: Under the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, land, which was afforested in 2013, is eligible to activate payment entitlements under the Single Payment Scheme and to benefit from payment provided that the following criteria are met by applicants: - The land to be afforested was declared under the 2008 Single Payment Scheme (SPS) and was eligible for payment. - The applicant who...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payment has not yet issued to the person named under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme as the holding has not yet satisfied the Scheme minimum stocking density requirements. As soon as the holding concerned is confirmed as having met these requirements, the case will be further processed with a view to payment at the earliest possible date thereafter.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: Payment has not yet issued to the person named under the 2012 or 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme as the holding has not yet satisfied the Scheme minimum stocking density requirements. Applicants must own, possess, hold and maintain livestock in order for them to be considered eligible for stocking purpose. While medical evidence has been received and considered, further processing revealed...