Joe Walsh (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 232: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when payment of single farm payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [18600/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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As indicated in my reply of 30 March 2006 to Parliamentary Question No. 196 in this case, an application under the 2005 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 13 May 2005. Following initial processing of the application, certain issues in relation to one of the parcels included on the application were highlighted, which required to be satisfactorily resolved before payment could be made. Officials of my Department have been in direct contact with the person named on numerous occasions in an effort to resolve these issues.

Despite these efforts, it has not been possible to reconcile matters. Accordingly, a small overlap has been confirmed. However, under Article 51 of Commission Regulation (EC) 796/2004, no penalty is applied when the difference between the area claimed and the area found is less than 3% or 2 hectares, but payment is based on the area found.

Therefore, while the person named declared 38.20 hectares on his 2005 Single Payment Scheme application form, the area found following processing is 38.00. The application is now being further processed on this basis, with a view to payment of €8,625.61 issuing shortly.

Joe Walsh (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 233: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if payment of balance of a single farm payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [18602/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person named successfully applied for the transfer of entitlements by way of inheritance under the Single Payment Scheme and payment amounting to €1,299.74 issued on 7 April 2006.

The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the Single Payments Scheme National Reserve under category C.

Category C caters for farmers who, between 1 January 2000 and 19 October 2003, sold the milk quota into the Milk Quota Restructuring Scheme and converted their enterprise to a farming sector for which a direct payment under Livestock Premia/or Arable Aid Schemes would have been payable during the reference period 2000 to 2002.

A formal letter setting out my Department's decision has issued to the person named and she has been notified that if she is dissatisfied with my Department's decision in relation to the National Reserve she now has the opportunity to appeal this decision to the Independent Payment Appeals Committee. An appeals application form is available from any of my Department's offices or on the Department website at www.agriculture.gov.ie.