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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted an application for allocation of entitlements under the ‘Scottish Derogation’ category of the Basic Payment scheme and processing of this application is at an advanced stage. Processing of applications involves administrative and on farm checks and verification of land details submitted under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme application. These checks are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted a Private Contract Clause application as transferor on the 25th May, 2015 to transfer 69.23 Basic Payment scheme entitlements. He also submitted an application to have his Basic Payment Scheme entitlement value reviewed under force majeure circumstances. Both applications have been deemed successful. This resulted in 71.31 Basic Payment Scheme entitlements being...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted a 2015 Basic Payment/Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme application on 11 May 2015. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases Remote Sensing (i.e. satellite) inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named commenced their AEOS 2 contract on 1 September 2011 and was paid in full for the 2012 – 2014 Scheme years. Under the EU Regulations governing this scheme and other area-based payment schemes, a comprehensive administrative check, including cross-checks with the Land Parcel Identification System, must be completed before payment can issue.  The application of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department has organised the removal of up to 8 horses on welfare grounds from the Briarhill area of Galway city in the past month. A number of horse carcasses were also removed. None of the rescued horses or horse carcasses were microchipped and, while my Department has a policy of prosecuting for suspected cases of animal neglect and cruelty, it is not possible to bring about a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted a 2015 Private Contract Clause application to my Department seeking the transfer of land and entitlements by lease as Transferor. This application was fully processed and payment under the Basic Payment Scheme issued to the person named on 23 rdFebruary 2016. Balancing payments are due to issue in late April/early May 2016 when all applications under the 2015 Basic...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted a 2015 Private Contract Clause application to my Department seeking the transfer of land and entitlements by lease as Transferee. This application was fully processed and payment under the Basic Payment Scheme issued to the person named on 19thFebruary 2016. Balancing payments are due to issue in late April/early May 2016 when all applications under the 2015 Basic...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department received applications under the ‘young farmer’ category of the 2015 National Reserve and the Young Farmers Scheme from the person named. The applications have been fully processed and payment is due to issue in the coming days.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named commenced their AEOS contract on 1 September 2011. Payment has issued for the 2011-2014 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. My officials are finalising these checks and it is expected that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named commenced their AEOS contract on 1 September 2011. Payment has issued in respect of 2011 and 2012 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 be completed before any payment can issue. Issues arose in respect...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Appeals (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: An application under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 20 October 2015. Since the extended deadline for receipt of Basic Payment applications was 23 June 2015 this application was deemed to be late with a 100% penalty. This file is currently being reviewed taking account of the appeal lodged and the circumstances outlined and the person named will be...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Appeals (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named was originally penalised on his REPS contract in the amount of €4,927.42, which was a 51% penalty on the full 2013 Scheme Year payment due to him of €9,661.66. This penalty was notified to the person named by Farmers Statement from the Department dated 20 January 2014. The person named subsequently appealed the penalty imposed to the Agriculture Appeals Office...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: My Department has been investigating a number of cases involving the submission of invoices, which originated from one particular source, to verify and support their claims under the non-productive capital investment action of AEOS. It is known that in many cases the invoices submitted by participants, or their representatives, were for amounts greater than what was actually paid by the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named commenced their AEOS contract on 1 May 2013 and was paid in full for the 2013-2014 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 be completed before any payment can issue.  The application of the person named...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bovine Disease Controls (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The current contract relating to the provision of a service for the haulage of TB reactor cattle and other animals for disease control purposes runs until June 2017. My Department can extend the contract for a further period or periods of up to one year from that date subject to the other provisions of the contract. It is therefore not proposed to seek a new tender for this service until...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: 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 continuing to investigate these issues including the correction of any IT or data issues with a view to all these remaining cases meeting the payment validation checks so...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named was a participant in REPS 4. He completed his participation in that scheme at the end of 2013 and all payments due have been made. There is no record of the person named being a participant in the Agri-Environment Options Scheme (AEOS).

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: Killybegs Fishery Harbour Centre is one of the six designated Fishery Harbour Centres which are owned, managed and maintained by my Department under Statute. My Department is currently progressing a project for a proposed pier extension at Smooth Point on the new pier at Killybegs Fishery Harbour Centre. As part of the design process the consulting engineers are engaging with interested...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted an application for the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme which was received in the Department on 13 May 2015. The application has been fully processed with payments issuing to the nominated bank account of the person named in October and December 2015. A final balancing payment is due to all applicants of the Scheme following the completion of the allocation of Basic...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (6 Apr 2016)

Simon Coveney: 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 date of 1 October 2015 are eligible for a 2015 part-year payment in respect of 2015 eligible actions, for the three month period 1 October 2015 - 31 December 2015. The first instalment of the payment issued to the person named on the 8 March 2016. The...