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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 2 with a contract commencement date of the 1 January 2016.  During the 2016 prepayment checking process an issue was identified in relation to crosschecks with other Department databases and a further issue was also identified with the Commonage action. Department officials are examining these issues with a view to resolving and further...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The Department has no record of a GLAS application being submitted by the person named for any of the three tranches of GLAS.  A GLAS 1 Draft Online Application was recorded for the person named but that application was never submitted to my Department. Therefore, as the person named is not approved into the Scheme, the question of payment does not arise.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of the 1 October 2015 and has received full entitlements in respect of the 2015 scheme year.  During the 2016 prepayment checking process issues were identified in relation to the Commonage action.  Department officials are actively working to resolve these issues with a view to further processing the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of the 1 October 2015 and has received full entitlements in respect of the 2015 scheme year.  During the 2016 prepayment checking process an issue was identified with the Commonage action.  Department Officials are actively working to resolve this issue with a view to further processing the application for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of the 1 October 2015 and has received full entitlements in respect of the 2015 scheme year.  During the 2016 prepayment checking process issues were identified with the Low Input Permanent Pasture, Planting New Hedgerows and Traditional Dry Stone Wall Maintenance actions. Department officials are examining...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 2 with a contract commencement date of the 1 January 2016.  During the 2016 prepayment checking process issues were identified with the Commonage action.  Department officials are actively working to resolve these issues with a view to further processing the application for payment as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and has received full entitlements in respect of the 2015 scheme year. The 85%  advance payment for 2016 has been processed and payment has issued to the person named. The balancing 15% payment for 2016 will be processed in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015 and has received 85% payment in respect of the 2015 scheme year. During the 2015 balancing prepayment checking process issues were identified with the Protection of Watercourses from Bovines and Commonage actions which require further examination. Department officials are actively working to resolve...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of the 1 October 2015 and has received full entitlements in respect of the 2015 scheme year.  During the 2016 prepayment checking process an issue was identified with the Commonage action.  Department Officials are actively working to resolve this issue with a view to further processing the application for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of the 1 October 2015 and has received full entitlements in respect of the 2015 scheme year.  During the 2016 prepayment checking process issues were identified with the Low Emission Slurry Spreading action.  Department officials are examining these issues with a view to resolving and further processing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of the 1 October 2015 and has received a first payment instalment of 85% in respect of the 2015 scheme year.  During the 2015 balancing prepayment checking process an issue was identified in relation to the Low Input Permanent Pasture action.  Department officials have examined this issue and the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of the 1 October 2015 and has received full entitlements in respect of the 2015 scheme year.  During the 2016 prepayment checking process issues were identified with the Natura and Protection of Watercourses from Bovines actions.  Department officials have examined these issues, addressed them and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of the 1 October 2015 and has received full entitlements in respect of the 2015 scheme year.  During the 2016 prepayment checking process issues were identified with Low Input Permanent Pasture action.  Department officials have examined this issue, addressed it and the application will now...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: A GLAS 2 application for the person named was received on the GLAS online system on the 29 November 2015.  The Low Input Permanent Pasture (part parcel) and Traditional Hay Meadow (part parcel) actions were not in accordance with the scheme Terms and Conditions and were deemed ineligible.  Without these actions the application failed to meet the minimum qualifying score of 16.5 and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Premium Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted an application for payment under the Afforestation Grant and Premium Scheme. However, in respect of one of the plots the subject of the application, there are constraints on ownership due to the existence of turbary rights in favour of a third party. Under the Scheme, payment cannot issue until satisfactory documentary evidence of the relinquishing of such rights...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Ireland has supported the greater market orientation of the CAP over recent reforms, including the decoupling of payments from production. This has provided farmers a measure of income stability from the Basic Payments Scheme while allowing them to adjust production in response to market demand.  I do not feel that a move away from such an approach to direct payments...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The introduction of a €200 suckler cow payment would involve a redistribution of funds allocated to farmers under Pillar I. This would necessitate a linear cut across payment to all BPS beneficiaries.  The estimated annual  cost of such a measure could exceed €200 million. Ireland has supported the greater market orientation of the CAP over recent...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 2 with a contract commencement date of the 1 January 2016.  During the 2016 prepayment checking process issues were identified with the Commonage action.  Department officials are actively working to resolve these issues with a view to further processing the application for payment as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: In the context of the Rural Development Programme 2015 - 2020 the Department has delivered over twenty new schemes that were supported by IT capability in the last two years.  In the first two years of the current RDP programme my Department has already implemented substantially more RDP schemes than were implemented over the entire ten year lifetime of the previous RDP programme. This...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (7 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: Work is underway to update the TAMS II payments system to allow for the processing of over claims and it is anticipated that this functionality will be available in a matter of weeks.