Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 376: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not received the single farm payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3832/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The single payment scheme is applicable to farmers who actively farmed during all or any of the three reference years 2000, 2001 and 2002, and who were paid livestock premia and/or arable aid payments in one or more of those years.

As the person named did not benefit under any of the schemes, entitlements were not established for the single payment scheme. The person named submitted an application, on 29 October 2004, for consideration under the force majeure or exceptional circumstances measure of the single payment scheme. Having assessed the application, the single payment entitlements unit informed the person named that the circumstances outlined did not fulfill the force majeure criteria laid down in article 40 of Council Regulation, EC no. 1782/2003. The person named then appealed this decision to the single payment appeals committee which upheld this decision.

The person named was also ineligible for payment under the 2005 disadvantaged areas scheme as a check on the animals on the holding showed that the minimum stocking density of 0.15 livestock units per forage hectare was not satisfied.