Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 846: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary in relation to payments under the REP scheme. [24341/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person named is currently in the fourth year of his REPS 2 contract. The question relates to his REPS 1 contract, which commenced on 1 September 1995. A penalty imposed on him following an inspection meant that his entire fifth year payment should have been withheld. However my Department issued the payment in error. The payment was then cancelled, but through an oversight my Department continued to pursue it as an overpayment. My Department has, rightly, apologised for this mistake to the person named through solicitors acting on his behalf. Other penalties were imposed on the person named during the second, third and fourth years of his REPS 1 contract.