Joe Walsh (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 164: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if full payment of single farm payment will be made to a person, details supplied, in County Cork. [9695/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person named submitted an application under the single payment scheme on 13 May 2005. Payment amounting to €18,868.28 issued to the applicant on 1 December 2005. The person named subsequently applied to have his entitlements consolidated under the 2005 single payment scheme. This application has been fully processed and the entitlements have now been consolidated. A supplementary payment amounting to €5,339.37 will issue to the person named shortly.

Joe Walsh (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 165: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if full payment of single farm payment will be made to a person, details supplied, in County Cork. [9696/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person named submitted an application under the single payment scheme on 11 May 2005. Payment amounting to €8,597.90 issued to the applicant on 1 December 2005. However, the person named subsequently applied to have his entitlements consolidated under the 2005 single payment scheme. This application has been fully processed and the entitlements have now been consolidated. A supplementary payment amounting to €1,417.12 will issue to the person named shortly.

Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 166: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she will take to ensure the entitlements of a person (details supplied) which have been transferred to another person are immediately recognised by her Department and the signed transfer of such entitlements be acknowledged forthwith; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9708/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Applications under the single payment scheme were submitted by both persons named on 12 May 2005. The herd number changed ownership in November 2004 from the first person named to the second person. However, all 61.78 single payment entitlements with a total value of €10,534.11 were established under the previous ownership.

To date, my Department has not received any request in respect of the transfer of the entitlements from the previous to the current herd owner. Entitlements may be transferred by means of inheritance, private contract clause or administrative transfer form depending on the circumstances of the change of ownership of the lands and-or herd number. My Department is endeavouring to contact the named persons to establish which measure of the single payment scheme represents the most appropriate method to complete the transfer of these entitlements. Payment cannot issue until such time as the transfer of the entitlements is completed.

Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 167: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the moneys which have been awarded to a person (details supplied) under the single payment scheme; and if there are outstanding moneys due to them. [9716/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person named submitted an application for consideration in respect of force majeure-exceptional circumstances and consolidation measures of the single payment scheme.

Following processing of the force majeure-exceptional circumstances application, the person named was notified that his circumstances did not fulfill the force majeure criteria laid down in Article 40 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 as production was not affected during one or more of the three reference years 2000-02. Subsequently, a provisional statement of entitlements issued to the person named and he was advised if he was dissatisfied with same to request a review. No such request was received by my Department.

The herd owner also applied to have his entitlements consolidated under the 2005 single payment consolidation measure. This application has been processed and full payment in respect of 82.02 entitlements amounting to €34,121.44 issued to the person named on 1 December 2005. Therefore, the person named is deemed to have been paid in full.

John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 168: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on providing grant aid to farmers who in the interests of public safety wish to provide a cattle underpass where their farm is divided by a non-national roadway; the discussions she has had with the IFA and the Department of Transport in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9752/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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This is not a matter for my Department. It is my understanding that applications for such works are made to an individual's own county council.