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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted a 2015 Basic Payment Scheme/Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme application on 6 May 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 a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named commenced their AEOS 1 contract on 1 September 2010, and have been paid in full for 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 2015 is the final scheme-year of payment for the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The restrictions on buying animals into herds where the presence of TB has been confirmed and the restrictions on selling animals out of these same herds, except directly to slaughter, derive from the EU legislation governing bovine TB eradication programmes. These regulations permit farmers to buy in cattle when the herd has passed one clear TB test. Given that these requirements derive from...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: Procedures for dealing with casualty animals are set out in the protocols of my Department’s Veterinary Public Health Inspection Service and the Local Authority Veterinary Service. While there is no obligation on any slaughter plant to process casualty animals, where an animal of this type is accepted, it is subject to the intake checks at the slaughter plant, as well as any additional...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted an application for the Basic Payment/Areas of Natural Constraint Schemes which was received in the Department on 6 May, 2015. Processing of the application has been finalised under both schemes, and the relevant payments have issued directly to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named submitted an application for the Basic Payment/ Areas of Natural Constraint Schemes, which was received in the Department on 7 April 2015. The Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme application has been processed and payment has issued to the nominated bank account of the person named. The person named also submitted two 2015 Private Contract Clause applications and a Review of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Agencies Board Appointments (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Board of Bord Bia statutorily consists of a Chairman and 14 Ordinary members. The Board is not constituted on a geographical basis but its make-up is determined by the Bord Bia Act(s), with Board Members to be persons with knowledge or experience of the food industry and consumer requirements. Within these statutory parameters are included representatives from key stakeholder...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The information requested by the Deputy is being forwarded directly to the farmer.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The person named commenced their AEOS 3 contract on 1 May 2013 and has been paid in full for the 2013, 2014 and 2015 scheme years. Payment in respect of the 2015 scheme year issued in two parts: - 85% in the amount of €3,343.05 and 15% in the amount of €589.95, both issuing on 24 December 2015 .

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Celtic Sea sentinel herring fishery is a small boat, under 18m, herring fishery operating in a specific herring spawning area off the South East Coast known as the Dunmore Box. Following two devastating collapses of the Celtic Sea Herring Fishery, the recovery plan identified the special area known as the “Dunmore Box” as an important area for herring reproduction. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: There are no provisions under the current National Reserve measure of the Basic Payment scheme for the allocation of sheep quota. In accordance with the EU Regulations governing the National Reserve, entitlements are allocated to eligible applicants based on one entitlement of eligible land declared by the applicant on their Basic Payment Scheme application. Priority access must be given to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: To date 21,700 applicants have submitted some or all of the required data notifications, while 22,300 applicants have submitted some or all of the required genomic samples, representing 290,000 samples. Payments amounting to €30.2m issued to 15,914 applicants in December 2015 under the Programme. Payments will continue in the coming weeks to applicants as eligibility is confirmed.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: A total of 29,865 applicants were accepted into the Beef Data and Genomics Programme, of which 3,200 applicants have now withdrawn. Approximately 4,300 applicants have not, as yet, returned their genomic samples. My Department will be making contact with these herdowners in the coming weeks to remind them to submit samples to facilitate payment.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Eligibility (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: I am very pleased to say that over 14,000 applications have been submitted under the second tranche of the GLAS Scheme, which is a continuing testament to the success and attractiveness of this new agri-environment scheme. All applications must now be assessed in line with the requirements set out in the scheme Terms and Conditions. My Department is currently processing these...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: At the end of December 2015 my Department processed a first instalment of the 2015 part-year payments (covering the three month period 1 October -31 December 2015) for GLAS Tranche 1 applications. To be eligible for a part-year payment, it was necessary to have an approved start-date of 1 October 2015 for the GLAS contract start, have GLAS actions which are payable in 2015, and to have passed...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The full details of the number of GLAS Tranche 1 applications which qualify for GLAS+ payments will only be available when full year GLAS payment calculations are finalised. The latest estimate indicate that some 1,400 Tranche 1 applications will qualify for GLAS + payments, increasing their annual payment to around €6,500 on average. GLAS + payments in respect of the 2015 part-year...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: I am very pleased to say that over 14,000 applications have been submitted under the second tranche of the GLAS Scheme, which is a continuing testament to the success and attractiveness of this new agri-environment scheme. All applications must now be assessed in line with the requirements set out in the scheme Terms and Conditions. My Department is currently processing these applications...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The information as of 10 January 2016 is set out in tabular form below: - REPS AEOS 1 AEOS 2 AEOS 3 No. Participants 1 (7,459) * 5,800 5,771 Completion dates End 2016 (end 2015) End 2016 End 2018 Approved into GLAS 1 - 1,447 651 540 Applied for GLAS 2 - 3,025 1,152 737 *All AEOS 1 contracts expired at end 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Data (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: The number of eligible applicants in each county and the number of eligible applicants paid to date is set out below. Work is ongoing as a matter of priority in order to clear outstanding cases, in particular in relation to those cases, which may only have met the eligibility requirements at the end of 2015. County Applied Paid Carlow 763 691 Cavan 4,890 4,485 Clare 6,135...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (13 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: Bovine disease levies, which yielded €6.2m in 2015, are collected at Department approved slaughter plants, milk processing plants, Local Authority approved slaughter plants and at points of export of bovines. Inspection fees are collected under separate EU legislation in respect of the cost of official controls carried out under EU food safety regulations relating to cattle slaughtered...