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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An appeal dated 26th November 2010 in respect of the persons concerned was received in my Department and all the circumstances relative to the claim were carefully considered. The outcome of this appeal was outlined in a letter issued by me to Deputy McGuinness on 16th December 2010. In so far as no application for membership of REPS 4 was received by my Department from the people in...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (13 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 4 May 2010. The 50% advance payment, which issued on 18 October and the further 30% payment, which issued on 1 December, were on the basis of those parcels cleared for payment at that stage, as a number of other land parcels listed on the application of the person named required re-digitisation. This...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: Under the provisions of the governing EU Regulations, the closing date for receipt of applications for the 2010 Single Payment Scheme and Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was 17 May 2010. An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was submitted on-line using the iNET facility by the person named on 5 October 2010. As this application was received after the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 29 April 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Animal Identification Inspection. The inspection process is complete and the application has been fully processed. Payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued on 3 December...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: In accordance with the standard arrangements for State Bodies, the criteria on which the performance of the Chief Executive is measured and any specific performance-related targets are properly determined by the board of that State Body and not by the Minister under whose Department's aegis that State Bodies operates. In the case of HRI, therefore, the determination of the performance-related...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The land parcels listed on the application of the person named are currently being digitised by the Single Farm Payment Section. The REPS application of the person named will be processed upon completion of this work.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: Applications under the 2009 and 2010 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme were received from the person named on 15 May 2009 and 20 May 2010, respectively. The Terms and Conditions governing the Scheme require, inter alia, that applicants maintain a minimum stocking density on their holding of 0.15 livestock units per forage hectare declared, for at least three consecutive months, during the calendar...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The cost to this Department of providing all computer hardware (Personal Computer + Printer) and software from 2007 to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is as follows: Location Hardware Software Constituency Office, Cavan. â'¬863 ex. VAT â'¬332 ex. VAT Agriculture House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. â'¬863 ex. VAT â'¬332 ex. VAT

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received from the person named on 19 April 2010. The 50% advance payment under the Single Payment Scheme, which issued on 18 October, the interim balancing payment which issued on 1 December and the 75% advance payment under the Disadvantaged Area Scheme which issued on 21 September, were on the basis of those...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received from the person named on 29 April 2010. The 50% advance payment under the Single Payment Scheme, which issued on 18 October, the interim balancing payment which issued on 1 December and the 75% advance payment under the Disadvantaged Area Scheme which issued on 21 September, were on the basis of those...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The amounts paid by my Department to Indecon Economic Consultants for the past five years are set out in the following table: YEAR PAYMENTS 2006 â'¬173,272 2007 â'¬187,150 2008 - 2009 - 2010 â'¬110,902

Written Answers — Departmental Websites: Departmental Websites (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The details requested by Deputy McManus in relation to the Department's websites are provided in the table below: Website Name Annual cost (ex vat) for each site in 2010 Total unique average monthly visitors 2010 http://www.agriculture.gov.ie €9501.98 36,243 http://www.agfood.ie €69.99 11,264 http://www.fawac.ie €62.99 542 http://www.fishingnet.ie €69.99 424...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An application under 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 17 May 2010. The 50% advance payment, which issued on 18 October 2010, was on the basis of the land cleared at that stage, as a number of parcels declared required digitising. Balancing payments under the scheme, which commenced 1 December, would, in normal circumstances, be confined to those whose...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The EU rules governing the AEOS and Natura Schemes require that comprehensive administrative and validation checks must be carried out on all applications before letters of approval may issue. Natura and Commonage applications, which included a Sustainable Management Plan, required additional checks to be carried out in order to satisfy eligibility and audit requirements. These additional...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The person named registered 39 animals under the 2009 Suckler Welfare Scheme. Payment has issued in respect of 29 animals and payment in respect of a further 8 animals will issue shortly. The remaining 2 animals have errors associated with them and my Department has written to the applicant in connection with these errors.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The person named submitted an application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme on 11 May 2010 and also submitted an application under the Consolidation measure of the Single Payment Scheme on 17 May 2010. The 50% advance payment under the Single Payment Scheme, which issued on 18 October 2010 and the further 30% payment under the same Scheme, which issued on 01 December 2010, were based on...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The REPS application belonging to the person named was the subject of an on-the-spot inspection on 18 August 2010. Following this inspection, penalties totalling €2,699.44 were imposed for non-compliance with the Agri-Environmental Plan. The person named was informed of this penalty on 26 October 2010 and submitted an appeal on 28 October 2010. This appeal is currently being examined by...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 13 April 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Full Cross Compliance inspection. During the course of the Cross Compliance inspection breaches were discovered in relation to Statutory Management Requirement number 1 concerning...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received from the person named on 17 May 2010. The 50% advance payment under the Single Payment Scheme, which issued on 18 October, the further 30% payment under the same Scheme, which issued on 1 December, as well as the 75% advance payment under the Disadvantaged Area Scheme which issued on 30 September, were...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: My Department's records show that the person named was not on the list of active sheep flock owners to whom a census form issued in December 2009. This is because his sheep flock designator was made dormant following non-receipt of a census return from him for 2008.