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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on the 20 April 2010. This application was selected for a Ground Eligibility and Full Cross Compliance inspection. The inspection process is complete and the results are now being processed. During the course of the Ground Eligibility inspection, discrepancies were found with some of the parcels applied on and...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: The EU Regulations governing REPS 4 and other area-based schemes provide that payments issue in two instalments. The first instalment of 75% may be paid once all administrative checks on all applications, as well as cross-checks against areas declared on Single Payment Scheme applications, have been completed. This process is underway and my objective is to make all payments for 2010 as...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 15 March 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Animal Identification Inspection. The inspection process is completed and the application has now been fully processed. Payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and Single...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: I can confirm that the balancing payments under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme began issuing on 1 December, in line with the very ambitious payments targets I set for my Department in early October. Payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme have been ongoing since they commenced on 22 September. I am confident that, by year-end, payments to farmers nationally will have exceeded €1.35...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 23 March 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 results are now being processed. Under EU regulations governing the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 5 May 2010. This application consisted of 11 land parcels, eight of which require re-digitisation. Payments under the Single Payment Scheme were made in respect of eligible land parcels on 18 October 2010 and 1 December 2010 respectively. An advance payment under the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 13 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 — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 23 April 2010. Payments under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme and Disadvantaged Areas Scheme have commenced nationally on 18 October 2010 and 22 September 2010 respectively. The person named submitted an application with 8 land parcels, 5 of which required re-digitisation. My...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: The Department's records indicate that in 2007, the amount of nitrogen from livestock manure applied to land on the holding of the person named above (including that deposited by animals) was 269.46 kgs per hectare, which exceeded the limit of 170 kgs per hectare set down in the Nitrates Regulations. My Department wrote to the person named on two occasions in June and July 2008 notifying him...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 19 April 2010. The advance payments under the Disadvantaged Area Scheme and the Single Payment Scheme payment issued to the person named on 21 September and 18 October respectively based on the clear eligible area. However, a number of the land parcels listed on the application...

Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: The implementation and operation of each performance related award scheme is the responsibility of the board of the agency concerned. My Department does, however, play a role in monitoring performance related awards for CEOs of the commercial and non-commercial bodies under the aegis of my Department. A bonus payment of €40,539 was made to the CEO of one of the bodies under the aegis of my...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: No Single Payment entitlements were established for the person named as he did not receive any premia payments under the coupled regime during the 2000 – 2002 reference period. The person named submitted applications under the 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 National Reserve. The person named applied under Category A of the 2005, 2006 and 2008 National Reserve which catered for farmers who, after...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: The person named has received his full payment based on the eligible land declared under the 2008 Single Payment Scheme 2008. Having successfully processed the application under force majeure and the 2008 application, payment was issued to the person named on 21 January 2010. There is no further payment due to the applicant.

Written Answers — Property Registration: Property Registration (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: The delay in registration is due to the complexity involved with a right-of-way mapping conflict. Consultation is taking place between officials from my Department and the Property Registration Authority with a view to resolving the matter as quickly as possible. I have requested that the Deputy be kept appraised of developments.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 11 May 2010. In relation to the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, 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,...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 21 April 2010. The advance payments under the Disadvantaged Area Scheme and the Single Payment Scheme payment issued to the person named on 21 September and 18 October respectively based on the clear eligible area. However, a number of the land parcels listed on the application...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 14 May 2010. Payments under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme commenced nationally on 18 October 2010. The person named submitted an application with 62 land parcels, 21 of which required re-digitisation. Payments under the Single Payment Scheme were made on land parcels that were clear for payment on 18...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 13 May 2010. Payments under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme and Disadvantaged Areas Scheme have commenced nationally on 18 October 2010 and 22 September 2010 respectively. The person named submitted an application with 8 land parcels, 4 of which require re-digitisation....

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: No civil servant has received any such payment in the past 12 months.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 27 April 2010. Payments under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme and Disadvantaged Areas Scheme have commenced nationally on 18 October 2010 and 22 September 2010 respectively. The person named submitted an application with 7 land parcels, 3 of which require re-digitisation....