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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under 2014 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 25 April 2014. Processing of the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme application was completed on time with payment issuing at the earliest possible date, directly to the nominated bank account of the person named on 24 September 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under 2014 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 27 March 2014. Processing of the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme application was completed on time with payment issuing at the earliest possible date, directly to the nominated bank account of the person named on 24 September 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: EU Regulations governing the Direct Payments Scheme and other area-based schemes require my Department to ensure that all eligibility requirements are complied with. In conducting inspections my Department's officers must ensure that in the first instance the land declared for aid is eligible and secondly that an agricultural activity is being carried out on all of this land. Where an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: Department records indicate that the person named above has been farming since 2001. In accordance with relevant EU Regulations to be eligible under the New Entrant priority category of the National Reserve an applicant must meet the following conditions: -S/he is participating in the Basic Payment Scheme in the year in which s/he applies to the National Reserve; -S/he must have commenced the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: Under the provisions of the governing EU Regulations, in particular, Regulation EU No 1307/2013, my Department is only entitled to make payments under the Basic Payment Scheme, and the Greening Payment on land that meets the requirements of the Regulations. The determinations referred to were carried out to ensure that the regulatory requirements would continue to be adhered to in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 17 April 2014. Processing of the application was recently finalised with payment due to issue directly to the nominated bank account of the person named shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: In general, the inspections of commonages are undertaken as part of a ground eligibility inspection where the applicant selected for inspection has claimed commonage land or as part of a LPIS Review. If a commonage is being inspected as part of ground eligibility inspection, the applicant is informed in advance in the normal manner. In addition to carrying out eligibility inspections, my...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: The amounts by county, paid to all beneficiaries under the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) and Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (DAS), who declared at least one Natura parcel for the period from 2008 to 2014 are outlined in the following tabular statement: - SPS 2008 (€) DAS 2008 (€) SPS 2009 (€) DAS 2009 (€) SPS 2010 (€) DAS 2010 (€) Carlow 8,997,367.75...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: Payments under the Single Payment Scheme were made to applicants, who held payment entitlements under that Scheme. In order to benefit from payment under that Scheme, an applicant had to declare an eligible hectare for each payment entitlement held. An eligible hectare must have all of the ineligible areas and features excluded and must have an agricultural activity carried out on it. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: As of the 2014 Scheme Year, no modulation was applied to payments received under the Single Payment Scheme. However, as the national ceiling available to Ireland was reduced proportionately, a linear reduction was applied to the value of all Single Payment entitlements so as to bring their total value into line with the national ceiling that was available for the 2014 Scheme Year. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: The “Scottish Derogation” allows for the allocation of payment entitlements to persons who never held Single Payment Scheme entitlements, either owned or leased, but who can produce verifiable evidence that they actively farmed in 2013. The Scottish Derogation will be open for applications in early April of this year and the Terms and Conditions of same, including eligibility...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: An application under the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 12 May 201 4. A review of the land parcels declared by the person named under the scheme revealed that some of the land parcels contained ineligible features. The person named was informed of these findings in writing on 29 October 2014. The area reductions resulted in an over-declaration penalty of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Contracts Data (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: My Department has not awarded any contracts to the company named since 1 January 2004. The awarding of contracts to any company by the State Bodies under my Department's aegis is an operational matter for the State Bodies themselves.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Legislative Process (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: To date, one piece of legislation has been submitted for pre-legislative scrutiny by my Department since 2011. I referred the general scheme of the Defence Forces (Forensic Evidence) Bill 2015 to the Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality on 12 March 2015. Other than in exceptional circumstances, the Heads of Bills prepared by the Department will be submitted for pre-legislative scrutiny.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: Currently there are twenty nine overholders in married quarters in or near the Curragh Camp. Four of the properties referred to above are located outside the C amp itself and are being offered for sale to the occupants. The remaining properties are located within the Camp and it is not possible to offer these for sale as the properties are required to be retained in Department of Defence...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: The Haulbowline Island Master Plan was commissioned by Cork County Council in November 2014. The creation of a Master Plan for the Island was considered necessary in order to identify a vision for the sustainable development of the remediated Island, linking industrial development and tourism potential alongside the activities in the Naval Base. It was also to ensure that the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts Data (26 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: The information sought is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences Applications (25 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: The referral response with observations from National Parks and Wildlife Service in respect of a general felling license application from the person named was received back in my Department on 20thMarch 2015. As the proposed felling site lies within a Freshwater Pearl Mussel habitat, the applicant must submit completed Forms A and B, which have been issued to him, before the file can be processed.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (25 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted an application under Force Majeure/Exceptional Circumstances measure of the Single Payment Scheme on 16th January 2004 on the grounds that he purchased lands after the reference period and requested additional entitlements on this land. My Department having examined the circumstances of this application deemed that it did not satisfy the criteria laid down in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (25 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 85 and 86 together. To be eligible for participation in the Young Farmers Scheme an applicant must have completed or be currently participating in an agricultural qualification at FETAC/QQI (Quality and Qualifications Ireland) Level 6 or its equivalent. Alternatively s/he must commit to commencing such a course by 30th September 2016. Details of the...