Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 174: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is entitled to dairy premium on milk quota held in the relevant reference years; if so, when this payment will issue; if her Department has received an application for entitlements from the national reserve from the herd owner; and when a decision will be made on same. [8452/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Following the adoption of Council Regulation (EC) 1782/2003, it was decided that the 2005 dairy premium and all other direct payments under the livestock premia and arable aid schemes in Ireland would be decoupled from production with effect from 2005, to be replaced by the single payment scheme. The decoupled dairy premium was based on the eligible milk quota held by dairy farmers on 31 March 2005, provided that they had delivered milk produced on their holding during the 2004-05 milk quota year, or prior to 15 May 2005. As my Department has no record of the persons named having held a milk quota on 31 March 2005, they were not entitled to payment of the dairy premium.

My Department has no record of receipt of an application form for the national reserve measure of the single payment scheme in this case.