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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (24 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 Department is aware of an issue with this case that resulted in the 2017 advance payment not being made. A solution has been identified and it is expected that the payment will issue...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (24 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 2 with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2016. The GLAS participation of the person named was subject to inspection and a letter advising of the final outcome of the inspection has issued. Once all issues relating to the inspection have been finalised this case will move to the payment stage.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (24 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The above named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October  2015. The applicant has received payments in respect of 2015 and 2016 scheme years. An issue arose that delayed the payment of the 2017 GLAS advance. Department officials have now resolved the issue and the case will progress to the payment stage. It is expected that the 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (24 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...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Appeals (24 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted an application under the 2017 BPS on 15 April 2017.  In order to qualify for payment under the BPS an applicant must have an eligible hectare of land in respect of each entitlement held.  My Department actively investigated incidents of illegal burning during 2017 as the lands affected are deemed ineligible for the purposes of the Basic...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (24 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: The information requested by the deputy is set out in the table. County GLAS 1 GLAS 2 GLAS 3 Total Carlow 277 127 126 530 Cavan 903 431 541 1,875 Clare 1,613 687 810 3,110 Cork 2,145 1,001 946 4,092 Donegal 1,934 1,002 1,410 4,346 Dublin 60 17 19 96 Galway 3,065 1,302 1,583 5,950 Kerry 1,767 868 764 3,399 Kildare 245 78 114 437 Kilkenny 429 207 191 827 Laois 368 193 235 796...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (24 Jan 2018)

Michael Creed: My Department has statutory responsibility for the welfare and protection of farmed animals under the European Communities (Welfare of Farmed Animals) Regulations, 2010 (Statutory Instrument No. 311/2010) and the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013.  Irish fur farmers are, in this regard, subject to the same animal welfare legislation as other livestock farmers.  A...

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

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 432 and 433 together. The Control of Horses Act 1996 provides powers to Local Authorities to deal with stray and abandoned horses and for the designation by each Local Authority, via byelaws that are appropriate to the respective functional areas, of control areas in which horses cannot be kept without a licence.  Members of An Garda Síochána...

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

Michael Creed: The statistics requested for the number of appeals received by the Agriculture Appeals Office by scheme by year for the years 2013 to 2017 are included in Table 1. The statistics requested for the number of requests for reviews received by the Agriculture Appeals Office by scheme by year for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 are included in Table 2. The information...

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

Michael Creed: Specific funding is not set aside in respect of cases which are subject to appeal to the Agriculture Appeals Office.  Any payments which may arise where appeals are successful are made from the funds allocated to the relevant schemes.

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

Michael Creed: Under the Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Water Regulations it is not permitted to apply slurry by means of a rain gun or an upward trajectory splash-plate as these application methods do not provide for an efficient and accurate application of slurry. Slurry may only be applied by means of a downward trajectory splash-plate or by low emission slurry spreading (LESS) equipment....

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...