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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under the 2015 Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme was received from the person named on 27 May 2015. Processing of the application has recently been finalised. Payment will issue shortly, directly to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: The commonages named were included on applications received in my Department under the 2015 Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme. Processing of these applications is currently in progress. On completion of this process, the applications will be further reviewed with a view to payment issuing directly to the nominated bank accounts of the persons concerned at the earliest possible date.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under the 2015 Basic Payment/Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme was received from the person named on 2 March 2015. Processing of the application has recently been finalised. Payments under theBasic Payment Scheme and Greening Payment as well as the Areas of Natural Constraints Schemeswill issue shortly, directly to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: All required checks on almost 27,000 GLAS applications submitted are now nearing completion and all applicants will be notified in writing of the outcome of their application before the end of October. Until this process is complete and the actions applied on are approved it is not possible to determine the number of farmers who will qualify for additional GLAS+ payment. The level of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: The applicant concerned submitted his payment claim for Dairy Equipment under TAMS I on the 11thof September 2015 and payment will issue when the required checks are completed. All claims which are cleared for payment will be paid before end of year.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plant Inspections (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: A number of EU and national regulations provide for charging of fees to operators of food businesses including meat plants and farmers. Details of such fees are set out below. Regulation (EC) 882 of 2004, relating to official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules, provides for the recovery of the cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted a 2015 Basic Payment/Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme application on 28 April 2015. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases Remote Sensing (i.e. satellite) inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: My Department received a 2015 Transfer of Entitlement Allocation Right form from the person named on 7thMay 2015. The details on the application form received indicated a discrepancy between the land area declared on the transfer application and the land area declared on the Basic Payment Scheme application submitted by the person named. My Department wrote to the person named on 10thAugust...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted a 2015 Basic Payment/Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme application on 28 April 2015. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases Remote Sensing (i.e. satellite) inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: A total of 26,935 applications were submitted to my Department under tranche 1 of the GLAS scheme. Until full pre-payment validations on area committed and lengths involved in linear actions such as hedgerows, it is not possible to know exactly what individual payments will come to. However, I have included €20m in the 2015 estimates for GLAS payments this year, and I expect this to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under the Areas of Natural Constraints Schemes was received from the person named on 7 April 2015. Processing of the application is currently in progress. On completion of this process, the application will be further reviewed with a view to payment issuing directly to the nominated bank account of the person named at the earliest possible date.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scéimeanna Talmhaíochta (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: Sheol an duine a ainmnítear iarratas ar leithdháileadh teidlíochtaí faoi ‘Maolú na hAlban’ an 8 Bealtaine 2015. Tá an t-iarratas seo á phróiseáil faoin gcatagóir ‘Maolú na hAlban’ (‘Scottish Derogation’) den Chúlchiste Náisiúnta. Tá próiseáil iarratas ar an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: A review of this case was completed by the Regional Inspector on 3 July 2015, which included a detailed examination of the medical evidence as presented by the person named.  The issue related to the fact that an SPS application had not been submitted under the relevant time provisions for SPS for 2012 and 2013.  The medical evidence presented related to 2009, which was outside the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under the 2015 Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme was received from the person named on 29 May 2015. Processing of the application has recently been finalised. Payment will issue shortly, directly to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under the Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme was received from the person named on 23 May 2015. Processing of the application is currently in progress. On completion of this process, the application will be further reviewed with a view to payment issuing directly to the nominated bank account of the person named at the earliest possible date.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: My Department received an application from the applicants - named under the Dairy Equipment Scheme of TAMS II on the 6thOctober 2015. The first tranche of this scheme has only just closed, on 16thOctober 2015, and all applications received now have to be examined, validated and then ranked and assessed. Approvals will commence when this process is complete.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: In relation to the Single Payment Scheme and other applications for payment under the acts of the institution of the European Union listed in the schedule to S.I. 115 of 2012, authorised officers have the statutory power to enter any premises, including lands, which the officer has reasonable grounds for believing are relevant to an application.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: In relation to the Single Payment Scheme and other applications for payment under the acts of the institution of the European Union listed in the schedule to S.I. 115 of 2012, authorised officers have the statutory power to enter any premises, including lands, which the officer has reasonable grounds for believing are relevant to an application.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted a 2015 Basic Payment/Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme application on 28 May 2015. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases Remote Sensing (i.e. satellite) inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Qualifications (20 Oct 2015)

Simon Coveney: Both the Young Farmer Scheme under the Basic Payment Scheme and the new investment schemes under the Rural Development Programme provide for higher payments for certain qualified young farmers. The eligible qualifications are published as part of the relevant schemes. Currently farmers can avail of Agricultural Relief from Capital Acquisition Tax and stamp duty relief on land transfers...