Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 286: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when payment of the EU single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [13968/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the 2005 single payment scheme was received from the person named on 16 May 2005. The person named had established special condition entitlements during the reference period. Special condition entitlements were established where applicants under the livestock premia schemes during the reference period were not obliged to submit an area aid application. As advised in the terms and conditions of the scheme, farmers who were allocated special condition entitlements could convert these to standard entitlements by farming and declaring a sufficient number of hectares in 2005. However, the person named did not declare any land on his 2005 application form. I have asked my officials to make contact with him to establish his situation in regard to eligibility for the 2005 scheme and to advise him on his 2006 application.

Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 287: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason the dairy premium payment of the EU single farm payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [14095/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the 2005 single payment scheme was received from the person named on 9 May 2005. Payment of €10,285.51, in respect of the transferred standard entitlements of the person named, issued on 6 January 2006. A further payment amounting to €5,637.51, in respect of the decoupled dairy premium element of the single payment, has been approved and will issue to the person named shortly.

Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 288: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason for the serious ongoing delay in having payment of the EU single farm payment issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork in view of the previous reply to a parliamentary question almost eight weeks ago that payment was due to issue at that time. [14097/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the 2005 single payment scheme was received from the person named on 12 May 2005. Subsequent to the reply to the previous parliamentary question to which the Deputy refers, further issues arose, which required to be satisfactorily resolved before the application could be processed to a conclusion. The issues related to the conversion of the special condition entitlements to standard entitlements. Special condition entitlements were established where applicants under the livestock premia schemes during the reference period were not obliged to submit an area aid application. As advised in the terms and conditions of the scheme, farmers who were allocated special condition entitlements could convert these to standard entitlements by farming and declaring a sufficient number of hectares in 2005. The conversion has now been completed and payment amounting to €1,550.12 will issue shortly to the person named.