Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 405: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason a top-up payment for bogs purchased under SAC designation from a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16930/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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In July 2004, my Department concluded an agreement with the farming pillar under Sustaining Progress which involved increased rates of compensation for the cessation of turf cutting in bogs that have been proposed as designated conservation areas. This agreement incorporates retrospective provisions benefiting landowners who participated in the original 1999 scheme for disposal of raised bogs and turbary rights to my Department. Arrangements for retrospective payment to the person referred to will be put in place shortly.