David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 1049: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the single payment due on 1 December 2005 will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2450/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Under EU legislation, to draw down his or her full single payment, an applicant must declare an eligible hectare to accompany each entitlement. This requirement was set out clearly in the documentation supplied to farmers on a number of occasions.

While the person named established 72.72 standard and 7.34 set aside entitlements, the single payment scheme application form received on 15 May declared 72.61 forage hectares and 1.61 eligible hectares of set aside. He had also declared 5.73 hectares of forestry set aside, which does satisfy eligibility requirements for set aside but is not eligible for the set aside payment. Payment under the scheme, therefore, was based on 74.22 hectares and issued to the person named on 24 January 2006.

If the person named declares sufficient lands on his 2006 single payment scheme application, he will be in a position to claim full entitlements.

David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 1050: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the single payment due on 1 December 2005 will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2451/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the single payment scheme was received from the person named on 16 May 2005. Following processing of the application, a number of queries were raised by my Department with the person named regarding the land declared on his application form. However, all issues are now resolved and payment will issue shortly.

David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 1051: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the single payment due on 1 December 2005 will be awarded to persons (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2452/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The persons named lodged their single payment scheme application form on 3 May 2005. Following processing of the application some queries were raised concerning the land declared and a letter issued on 17 September 2005 to which a reply has not been received. an official from my Department has recently contacted the applicants with a view to resolving this issue.

John Perry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 1052: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person's single payment is so low (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2465/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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In general, the single payment scheme is applicable to farmers who actively farmed in all or any of the three reference years 2000, 2001 and 2002, who were paid livestock premia and/or arable aid payments in one or more of those years and who, or whose successors, were farming in 2005. Based on the farming activity during the reference years, the person named established 18.17 entitlements with a net unit value of €78.36.

An application under the single payment scheme was received on 9 May 2005 from the person named. Payment amounting to €1,423.74, which represents the full entitlement value, issued to the person named on 1 December 2005.

Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 1053: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will take steps to ensure that a single farm payment which is due to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is awarded to them, particularly in view of the circumstances as set out in correspondence to her Department on 9 January 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2476/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person named submitted an application under the 2005 single payment scheme on 4 May 2005. However, the entitlements under the scheme were established by the late husband of the person named. No application was received from the person named to have these entitlements transferred. an official of my Department is in direct contact with the person named in an effort to resolve this issue as a matter of urgency.