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

Brendan Smith: REPS 4 is a measure under the current 2007-13 Rural Development Programme and accordingly is subject to EU Regulations which require detailed administrative checks on all applications to be completed before any payments can issue. Queries have arisen during the administrative checks on the plan of the person named which have required further examination. Officials in my Department are...

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

Brendan Smith: During 2008 and 2009 my Department carried out a number of Focus Groups around the country. The main objectives of the Focus Groups were: To promote awareness of the benefits of the Departments on-line service and Agfood.ie; Gain insight into farmers' attitudes towards farming in Ireland; and To assess farmer attitudes towards my Department. The cost of the Focus Groups in the two years in...

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

Brendan Smith: The numbers and costs associated with the use of mobile telephones is an operational matter for the State Bodies/Agencies under the aegis of my Department.

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

Brendan Smith: Details of the number of mobile telephones paid for and the amount spent during the requested periods are shown in the following table: Year Number of Mobile accounts Total Spend 2006 1,525 â'¬827,819.59 2007 1,835 â'¬924,019.60 2008 1,931 â'¬1,008,088.10 2009 1,917 â'¬701,944.06 2010 1,626 â'¬ 512,401.38 My Department makes extensive use of mobile telephony and related...

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

Brendan Smith: REPS 4 is a measure under the current 2007-13 Rural Development Programme and accordingly is subject to EU Regulations which require detailed administrative checks on all applications to be completed before any payments can issue. There are sufficient staff available in all local offices to deal with the outstanding REPS applications and in this regard payments are issuing to applicants...

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

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

Brendan Smith: Under the provisions of the governing EU Regulations, payments under the Single Farm Payment may be made only in respect of eligible land and applicants under the Scheme are obliged annually to declare to my Department the land parcels available to them. Details of the eligible area of the land parcels are recorded on my Department's Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS). It is also...

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

Brendan Smith: REPS 4 is a measure under the current 2007-13 Rural Development Programme and accordingly is subject to EU Regulations which require detailed administrative checks on all applications to be completed before any payments can issue. Queries have arisen during the administrative checks on the plan of the person named which have required further examination. Officials in my Department are...

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 13 May 2010. The 50% advance payment under the Single Payment Scheme, which issued on 21 October and the 75% advance payment under the Disadvantaged Area Scheme which issued on 21 September, were on the basis of those parcels cleared for payment at that stage, as a number of...

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 12 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 Schemes: Departmental Schemes (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The holding of the person concerned has been restricted under the TB Eradication Scheme since 1 September 2010, following which one animal was removed and valued under the On Farm Market Valuation Scheme. As outlined in the Important Information for Farmers booklet, which is issued to all herdowners at the time of restriction, the amount to be paid by the Department under the On Farm Market...

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 10 May 2010. This application was selected for a Ground Eligibility and Full Cross Compliance inspection. During the course of the Ground Eligibility inspection discrepancies were found with the following parcels P18217017, P18722028 and P18817040 due to inadequate deductions...

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

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 14 May 2010. The advance payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and the Single Payment Scheme, which issued on 21 September and 15 November respectively, were on the basis of those parcels cleared for payment at that stage. Following the completion of the re-digitisation...

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

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 17 May 2010. An Advance Payment under the Single Payment Scheme issued to the person named on 18 October 2010 on the clear eligible area. However, a number of the land parcels listed on the application required redigitisation. This process is now complete and the balancing...

Written Answers — Badger Monitoring: Badger Monitoring (12 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: My Department's overall national strategy for the eradication of TB provides for a comprehensive range of measures, including the mandatory annual testing for all cattle in the national herd, the restriction of holdings where reactors are disclosed, risk-based testing of herds contiguous to infected herds, the early removal of reactors and a wildlife programme involving the targeted removal...

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

Brendan Smith: An application under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 13 May 2010. The application was fully processed; the 75% advance payment issued on 21 September 2010 and the balancing 25% issued on 10 November 2010.

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 12 April 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility Inspection. The inspection process is complete and the application has been fully processed. Advance payment under the Single Payment Scheme issued on 16 December and the balancing...

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

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 13 May 2010. During the validation of the application, an overlap was identified in respect of one land parcel. This matter has now been resolved following correspondence between the person named and my Department and full payment issued to the person named on 8 December 2010.

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

Brendan Smith: EU Commission approval for the introduction of five targeted modernisation schemes focused on supporting productive investment in the agricultural sector was received in 2010. Due to the relatively short time-frames for completion of the investment works concerned, priority was given to the introduction of the Sow Welfare and Poultry Welfare Schemes which were launched on 16 June 2010. ...

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

Brendan Smith: An application under 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 5 May 2010. Advance payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued on 21 September and under the Single Payment Scheme on 18 October 2010, both on the basis of the land cleared at that stage. Parcels listed on the application of the person named required redigitisation;...