Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 386: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the balance of 1.19 entitlements under the single payment scheme will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [16321/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Inheritance application submitted in this case under the Single Payment Scheme has been processed. Payment in respect of the additional entitlements assigned will issue shortly.

Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 387: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount to be allocated under the National Reserve; and the date of allocation to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [16322/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the 2005 Single Payment Scheme National Reserve under Category B.

Category B caters for farmers who, between 1 January 2000 and 19 October 2003, made an investment in production capacity in a farming sector for which a direct payment under Livestock premia and/or Arable aid schemes would have been payable during the reference period 2000-2002. Investments can include purchase or long term lease of land, purchase of suckler and/or ewe quota or other investments.

The Regulations governing the Single Payment Scheme provide that applicants who apply under more than one measure of the Scheme must be examined to ensure that the application of both measures does not result in double benefit to the applicant for the same reason. The person named has already benefited from another measure i.e. New Entrant during the reference period and therefore this National Reserve application is being assessed to establish whether the provisions precluding double benefit or accumulation in certain circumstances are appropriate to the case.

My Department will write to the applicant as soon as the case has been fully examined.