Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 181: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare did not receive the full amount of single payment scheme for 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16769/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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In general, the Single Payment Scheme in 2005 was applicable to farmers who actively farmed in all or any of the three reference years 2000, 2001 and 2002, who were paid Livestock Premia and/or Arable Aid payments in one or more of those years and who submitted a valid 2005 Single Payment Scheme application.

Based on the farming activity during the reference years, the person named established 16.02 entitlements with a net value of €174.23 per entitlement amounting to €2,791.16 in total.

An application under the Single Payment Scheme was received on 27 April 2005 from the person named. Payment amounting to €2,707.43, which represents the full payment, with the required reduction of 3% for Modulation, issued to the person named on 1 December 2005. That 3% deduction will be refunded in the near future to the person named, in accordance with the provisions of the relevant EU Regulations, as the total payment was for less than €5,000. In addition, payments amounting to €1,915.32 issued in 2005 in respect of applications made under the 2004 Livestock Premium Schemes.

In comparison, the 2004 Livestock Premia payments to the person named amounted to €2,856.75 and the applicant also received additional payments of €1,354.01 during 2004 relating to applications made in respect of the 2003 Livestock Premia Schemes.