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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Appeals (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted a 2015 Basic Payment /Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme application on 29 April 2015. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases on-farm inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a Ground Eligibility...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: The person named commenced his AEOS contract on 1st September 2010. Payment issued in respect of the 2010-2014 Scheme years. Under the EU Regulations governing the Scheme and other area-based payment schemes, a comprehensive administrative check, including cross-checks with the Land Parcel Identification System must take place. As all AEOS 1 participants will be receiving their final...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: The applicant has applied under the Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme and his application has been selected for approval under the Ranking and Selection System following the administrative checks. It is envisaged that approval will issue very shortly once the final technical aspects of the application are examined.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: The Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 is a legal instrument with wide application and potential use by a range of authorised officers in a wide variety of settings. Local authorities, An Garda Síochána and officials of my Department are empowered to take prosecutions under the Act. To date, over 50 prosecutions have been initiated under the Act, including those taken by my...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Superlevy Fine (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: The rules governing the EU milk quota regime, including the superlevy system for production above quota, were set at EU level and it is not within the gift of individual Member States to amend the rules. However at the request of Ireland and some other member states the EU Commission introduced a provision last year permitting payment of the levy in three annual instalments, without...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: According to the latest figures available in the National Forest Inventory (2012) the proportion of forest cover in Co Leitrim is 16.7% (26,500 ha).

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: There are no county by county or regional targets for forestry planting in Ireland. I can confirm that there were 36 sites planted in Co Leitrim in 2014 totalling 271.91 hectares while nationally there was 6,156 hectares planted in the same year.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: An application under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS)/Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) Scheme was received from the person named on 29 April 2015. Advance and balancing payments in respect of the BPS issued in October and December 2015. Under the 2015 ANC Scheme, eligible applicants are required to have met a minimum stocking density of 0.15 livestock units for a retention period of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: An application for Tranche 2 of the GLAS Scheme for the person named was received on the dedicated GLAS online system on the 3 December 2015. The application was not approved into the GLAS scheme and accordingly no payment is due under the scheme. The unprecedented level of applications to the Scheme has meant that for GLAS 2, priority is being given to what are called Tier 1 and Tier 2...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: The person named commenced their AEOS contract on 1 November 2011. Payment issued in respect of the 2010-2014 scheme years. Under the EU Regulations governing the Scheme and other area-based payment schemes, a comprehensive administrative check, including cross-checks with the Land Parcel Identification System must take place. As all AEOS 1 participants will be receiving their final...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: An application under Tranche 1 of GLAS was received in my Department on the 21 May 2015 and the person named was approved into the GLAS 1 with effect from 1 October 2015. There are a number of applications, including that of the person named, remaining which have not passed all of the Department’s pre-payment validation checks for the 2015 part-year payment. The Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Issues (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: The completion date for the sowing of Wild Bird Cover in GLAS 1 and GLAS 2 has been extended from 31 May 2016 to 14 June 2016. My Department issued a text message to all approved GLAS 1 and GLAS 2 participants on the 26 May 2016 informing them of this extension.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted applications under the ‘young farmer’ category of the 2015 National Reserve and the Young Farmers Scheme to my Department. All administrative and land checks have now been completed. Payment under the National Reserve and Young Farmers’ Scheme is due to issue within the next week.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: While the export certification process of animals does not specify the breed of the animal, I can confirm that 2 greyhounds were exported to China in 2014 and a further nine were exported in 2016.  The position is that, once appropriate animal health and welfare certification requirements are met, dogs, including greyhounds, may be exported internationally.  Exporters are also...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted an application for the 2015 Sheep Technology Adoption Programme. Following confirmation of the completion of relevant tasks in the programme, payment issued in April 2016 to the nominated bank account of the person named. The person named has been approved under Tranche 1 of GLAS with a contract start date of 1 October 2015.  GLAS applicants with a start...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted a 2015 Basic Payment Scheme/Areas of Natural Constraint scheme application on 29 April 2015. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases Ground Eligibility inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: The person named submitted applications to my Department under the ‘young farmer’ category of the 2015 National Reserve and the Young Farmers Scheme. All administrative and land checks have now been completed. Payment under the National Reserve and Young Farmers Scheme is due to issue within the next week.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Appeals (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: An application under the 2015 basic Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 24 December 2015. As the application was received outside the permitted timeframes, it was deemed to have attracted a 100% late penalty. Following submission of an appeal, the late penalty was waived in this case and payment has issued to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: An application under Tranche 1 of GLAS was received in my Department on the 16 May 2015 and the person named was approved into the GLAS 1 with effect from 1 October 2015. There are a number of applications, including that of the person named, remaining which have not passed all of the Department’s pre-payment validation checks for the 2015 part-year payment. The Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Genomics Scheme (31 May 2016)

Michael Creed: An application to participate in Beef Data and Genomics Programme was received from the person named on 19 May 2015. Payment is made to applicants in respect of 2015 following completion of the administrative checks that verify compliance with both genotyping and data notifications. Final processing of this application has now been completed and payment will issue shortly.