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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 12 May 2010. The 50% advance payment, which issued on 18 October 2010, on the basis of the land cleared at that stage, as a number of parcels declared required digitising. While balancing payments are scheduled to commence issuing as and from 1 December, such payments would, in normal circumstances, be...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 22 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 results are now being processed. Under EU regulations governing the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application was submitted on 18 November 2010 requesting the transfer of 17.44 Single Payment entitlements by way of gift from the person named first to the person named second. As this application was received several months after the closing date for such applications, the requested transfer has been rejected. Letters have issued to both parties informing them of this decision and...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The cheese is available to charities who then arrange for distribution to needy individuals. The scheme is funded by the European Commission. The charities make an application in the first instance to the Intervention Unit of my Department. Once approved a warrant is issued which is used by the charity to collect the cheese from one of the five cold storage facilities where the cheese is...

Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The 2009 Annual Report and Financial Statements for Horse Racing Ireland were submitted recently to my Department where they are now being examined by officials with a view to their being presented to Government prior to publication. It is not possible to give a definitive date as to when this process will be completed.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 13 May 2010. Advance payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and Single Payment Scheme were issued to the applicant on 22 September and 18 October respectively on the basis of the declared digitised land. One of the land parcels listed on the application required re-...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2010)

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 and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Full Cross Compliance Inspection. The inspection process is complete and the results are now being processed. Under EU regulations governing the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 27 April 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 will issue within...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 14 May 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 the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: I understand that an application for payment of a forestry grant and premium is currently being processed by my Department. I have asked that payment be made as quickly as possible.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 18 March 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Animal Identification Compliance Inspection. The inspection process is complete and the results are now being processed. Under EU regulations governing the Disadvantaged Areas...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 4 April 2010. The person named received the 75% initial payment under the Disadvantaged Scheme and the 50% initial payment under Single Payment Scheme. A balancing payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme has issued to the person named. The balance due under the Single...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 13 May 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility Inspection. The inspection process is completed and the application has now been fully processed. Payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued on 16 November 2010. The 50%...

Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: As outlined in the replies to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 10960 of 7 April 2004 and 37130 of 19 October 2010, the person named lodged an application under the 1994 Scheme of Early Retirement from Farming on 10 December 1999. This application was rejected and the applicant was informed of the reasons. The Department was not aware at the time that the person named had ceased farming after 1996...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 29 April 2010. There were a number of land parcels declared on his application that were deemed to be over-claimed. The herd-owner was written to in this regard and he has accepted the revised areas, on foot of which, his application has been fully processed with payments due...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The local office reorganization plan involves reducing from fifty-seven to sixteen the number of offices from which the Department will operate District Veterinary, Forestry and Agricultural Environment and Structures support services in the future. County Cork is to have two of the sixteen remaining offices. Clonakilty has already been established as a regional office. To complete the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2009 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 15 May 2009. This application was processed and payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued on 21 September 2009. The advance and balancing payments under the Single Payment Scheme issued respectively on 19 October and 1 December 2009. All payments issued directly to...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: On the basis of expenditure to date and that forecast to year-end, my Department anticipates savings on the Vote in 2010 across some subheads. The anticipated savings will arise across various subheads on the Administrative Budget as well as across a range of other schemes and services. Some reallocation between subheads may also occur. The difficulty in estimating the full-year savings...

Written Answers — Beef Exports: Beef Exports (25 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: My Department, in co-operation with Bord Bia and the Department of Foreign Affairs, held a seminar in the Philippines in September 2007 in order to demonstrate the safety standards applicable to Irish food products and the effectiveness of our BSE controls. The veterinary authorities in the Philippines wrote to my Department in early 2008 requesting a list of approved meat plants, from which...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (24 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on the 28 April 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 the 50%...