Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 998: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive the single farm payment. [1545/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person named submitted an application for consideration in respect of the inheritance measure of the single payment scheme. Following processing of his application, the person named was notified on 19 January 2006 that his application was successful. Payment in respect of the entitlements established by the person named in his own right combined with those transferred by way of inheritance will issue shortly.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 999: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a decision will be made on the reassessment request by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo of a single farm payment entitlements to include the sheep quota of 47 animals which was frozen under agri-environmental measures. [1549/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The review of the single payment entitlements of applicants whose ewe quotas were frozen under agri-environmental measures is ongoing. My Department will make direct contact with all of the farmers involved when the task has been concluded.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 1000: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be allocated entitlements from the national reserve. [1554/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The application in this case concerns an allocation of entitlements from the national reserve under category B which caters for farmers who, between 1 January 2000 and 19 October 2003, made an investment in production capacity in 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. Investments can include purchase or long term lease of land, purchase of suckler and/or ewe quota or other investments. The application will be evaluated under the herd number P2380534 which has been re-activated since August 2005.

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.