Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 272: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the effect which the gas pipeline will have on persons (details supplied) with regard to REPS payments. [12514/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Arrangements arrived at between landowners and the developers of the gas pipeline are not a matter for my Department in the first instance. My Department does, however, make special provision for cases in which, as a result of the development of the pipeline, participants in REPS are compelled to reduce the area they have included in the scheme. They are exempted from the general rule under which, if land included in a REPS plan is disposed of, payments already made on that area are recouped. Payments for the remainder of the REPS contract are, however, recalculated to reflect the reduced area.