Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 390: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if all outstanding payments due to sheep farmers in commonage areas in destocked counties Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal, Mayo and Galway, will be awarded in full within the next two to three weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40329/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

My Department is currently reviewing the entitlements of applicants who destocked in commonage areas in the named counties. Processing of these applications is continuing and the intention is to issue supplementary payments to successful applicants at the earliest opportunity.

Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 391: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding an appeal of a decision not to grant an allocation from the national reserve for the single farm payment in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40330/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

As indicated in an earlier reply to the Deputy the person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the 2005 Single Payment Scheme National Reserve under Category C.

Category C caters for farmers who were active milk producers who sold their milk quota into the Milk Quota Restructuring Scheme and converted their enterprise to 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 to 2002. Documentation received in my Department from the person named indicates that he ceased supplying milk in November 1998 and therefore was deemed unsuccessful as he was not an active milk producer up to the date of sale of the milk quota.

An appeal has been submitted by the person named. And it has been forwarded to the Independent Single Payment Appeals Committee who will carry out a full review of the case and will correspond directly with the person named following the outcome of their review.