Results 11,741-11,760 of 18,461 for speaker:Brendan Smith

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 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. As a number of the land parcels declared by the applicant required digitisation, the advance payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and the Single Payment Scheme, which issued to the person named on 21 September and 18 October, respectively, were...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payments Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 26 April 2010. A number of parcels on the application required digitising and this process is now complete. Payment under the Disadvantaged Areas scheme issued to the person named on 20 October. The person named received advance payments under the Single Payment Scheme on the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: Payments in respect of the REPS 4 2010 scheme have not yet commenced. The EU Regulations governing REPS 4 and other area-based schemes provide that payments issue in two installments. The first installment 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...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: Payments in respect of the REPS 4 2010 scheme have not yet commenced. The EU Regulations governing REPS 4 and other area-based schemes provide that payments issue in two installments. The first installment 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...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: Payments in respect of the REPS 4 2010 scheme have not yet commenced. 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...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: In relation to the 2010 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, I have exercised the option of making an advance payment of 75 per cent of DAS beginning on 22 September, with the balancing 25 per cent payment commencing 20 October. I have taken this option because of the EU requirement to entirely process applications before payment can be made in full. However, this approach will ensure the maximum...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The earliest permissible date for payment under the EU Single Payment Scheme is 1st December. However, in 2010 I made a special case to the European Commission and secured agreement to make an advance payment of 50% from 18th October. As in the case of the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, I arranged for payments to be made to applicants, where the only outstanding issue was non-digitised maps. In...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payments Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 10 May 2010. A number of parcels listed by the person named required re-digitisation and this process is now complete. Full payment of the Disadvantaged Area Scheme will issue to the person named in the coming days while the 50% advance on the Single Farm Payment will also...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The person named registered 63 animals under the 2008 Suckler Welfare Scheme and was paid in full. 40 animals were registered under the 2009 Suckler Welfare Scheme. Payment has issued on three animals and the remaining animals have been processed for payment, which will issue shortly. An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (3 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: It was not possible to provide the information requested within the required timeframe. However, I have arranged for this information to be provided to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (2 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received from the person named on the 6 May 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Full Cross Compliance Inspection. The inspection process is completed and the application has now been fully processed. The 75% advance payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme will...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (2 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: My Department is involved in the payment of a wide range of grants and subventions including, for example, payments under the Single Payment Scheme to some 130,000 beneficiaries and area based compensation allowances to some 102,000 farmers. The information sought by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department and the resources required to compile the level of detail would not be...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (2 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: Under EU regulations governing the Disadvantaged Areas' Scheme and the Single Payments Scheme all ground eligibility inspections must be completed before any payment can issue to any applicant under either scheme, including those not selected for a ground eligibility inspection. On the other hand cross-compliance inspections may be carried out within the calendar year and do not hold up...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (2 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 10 May 2010. Payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme commenced on 22 September, with an advance payment of 75 per cent issuing in respect of 9.53 hectares amounting to €686.06. A deduction of €94.07 in respect of an overpayment relating to an overclaim of area under...

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (2 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: 11,370 farmers completed their five year REPS contract in the period October 2009 to October 2010. 9,236 applications were received for the new Agri-Environment Options Scheme, which closed on 17 May 2010.

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (2 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: All issues in relation to leases for Government Departments / Offices, including my Department is a matter for the Office of Public Works.

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (2 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: All issues in relation to leases for Government Departments / Offices is a matter for the Office of Public Works.

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (2 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: A major rationalisation plan for my Department was approved by Government last year. This plan involves a comprehensive restructuring of the Department's local office network and provides a fully integrated service to our farming clients and the wider agri-food and rural environmental sectors at regional level. The plan involves reducing, from 57 to 16, the number of offices from which the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (2 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The number of eligible Single Payment Scheme and Disadvantaged Areas Scheme applications amount to almost 130,000 per annum. As part of the application procedures for the both Schemes, applicants are requested to identify and remove ineligible areas, on maps provided by my Department, from their pre-printed land parcel details supplied by my Department. On receipt, the amended maps have to be...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (2 Nov 2010)

Brendan Smith: The application from the person named is being examined by my Department with a view to a decision being taken on entry into the Agri-environment Options Scheme. My Department will be in contact with the person named on the outcome of this process in the near future. Under the EU Regulations governing the Agri-Environment Options Scheme and the NATURA 2000 Scheme, payments may issue when...