Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Question 257: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if a decision has been made in regard to the application of persons (details supplied) in County Wexford for compensation under the recently formulated fisheries decommissioning scheme; if there will be further rounds of this scheme; if the applicant is being considered on hardship grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37686/05]

Pat Gallagher (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The deadline for receipt of applications for the fishing vessel decommissioning scheme was 1 November. Following the first phase of the approvals process, letters of offer have now issued to those applicants who met the mandatory eligibility criteria, in line with EU rules, and who opted to decommission their vessels in the first round. Approvals in respect of the planned second and third tranches will issue during 2006.

The applicants referred to by the Deputy have been advised by BIM, as the implementing authority for the scheme, that their application did not meet the mandatory eligibility criteria on its initial assessment. The applicants have also been advised that their application is being reviewed, and they have been given the opportunity to supply any further supporting data regarding eligibility.