John Perry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 125: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when an area aid payment will be released to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29906/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has been in contact with the father of the named person to clarify the position on applications under the disadvantaged areas and single payment scheme.

The herd number has been transferred in this case and it is, therefore, necessary to carry out adjustments in respect of the applications under both schemes. It will be necessary for the named person's father to complete the appropriate application form to transfer the single payment entitlements to him and an application form has been forwarded to him for completion.

My Department will process the disadvantaged areas scheme payment when the necessary adjustments on the application under that scheme have been completed.

Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 126: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when payment under the EU single payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) and the amount which will be awarded. [29907/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person named submitted applications under the force majeure and inheritance measures of the single payment scheme and following processing was deemed successful under both measures. The amended position, 6.08 entitlements, total value €8,940.54 net, was outlined to the person named by telephone and in writing on 11 May 2005. The person named has also applied under the category C of the national reserve which caters for farmers who, between 1 January 2000 and 19 October 2003, sold their milk quota into the milk quota restructuring scheme and converted their enterprise to a farming sector for which a direct payment under livestock premia and-or arable aid schemes would have been payable during the reference period 2000 to 2002.

The position is that applications for an allocation of entitlements from the national reserve were received from over 17,500 farmers. Processing of these applications is continuing and the intention is to make allocations to successful applicants by 1 December next. My Department will be in touch with the person named as soon as her application is fully processed. If the person named is successful under this measure it will serve to increase the total value of the entitlements as advised on 11 May 2005. Payments under the single payment scheme will commence in early December.