Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 657: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will receive a payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34249/05]

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. The person referred to is one of those who participated in the 1999 scheme and the detailed application of the retrospective provisions in this case is being examined. The result will be communicated to the landowner as soon as possible.