Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 981: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if payment has issued to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [1384/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The application under the 2005 single payment scheme for the person named has been fully processed and payment has issued. The person named also submitted an application under category C of the national reserve measure 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 or arable aid schemes would have been payable during the reference period 2000 to 2002.

More than 23,000 applications for an allocation of entitlements from the national reserve were received when account is taken of farmers who applied under more than one category. Processing of these applications is continuing and the intention is to make allocations to successful applicants at the earliest opportunity. My Department will be in touch with individual applicants as soon as their applications are fully processed and formal letters setting out my Department's decision will be issued in the near future.