Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 382: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason the entitlement for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow was changed from €53.15 to €44.57; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16153/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the 2005 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person concerned on 15 May 2005. Under EU legislation, in order 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. While the person concerned had established 53.15 entitlements during the reference period, he only declared 44.57 eligible hectares on his 2005 Single Payment Scheme application. The payment, which issued on 1 December 2005, was calculated on the basis of the declared area and was, therefore, the full payment due to the person named under the 2005 Single Payment Scheme.

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 383: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the grant aid which is available to a person rearing free range hens and supplying free range eggs as a business in Inishowen, County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16158/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has provided grant aid to commercial egg packers for the cost of providing new equipment for grading and packing of eggs and for the modernisation or construction of packing premises under the Capital Investment Scheme, (2001 to 2006), for the marketing and processing of agricultural products. The Scheme applied to approved egg-packing centres with an annual throughput of at least 15,000 cases and the minimum investment level was fixed at €100,000. My Department does not have a grant scheme aimed specifically at the production of free-range eggs.

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Question 384: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in respect of the single farm payment. [16165/06]

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.

The person named also submitted an application for the transfer of entitlements under the Single Payment Scheme. However, as the entitlements were established in the joint names of the herd owner and his brother, it was necessary to make contact with the brother of the person named. Arrangements are now being made to give effect to the transfer of the entitlements concerned, following which payment will immediately be made to the person named.