Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 1348: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the outcome of the independent appeals committee in respect of an appeal from a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [1716/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Single Payment Appeals Committee examines appeals in relation to the decisions of the Department of Agriculture and Food with regard to the implementation of the various facets of the Single Payment Scheme. The Agriculture Appeals Office received the appeal from the person named on 16th November 2006.

The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the Single Payment Scheme National Reserve under Category B(i), compensating those farmers who, between 1st January 2000 and 19th October 2003, made investments in production capacity or who purchased, or leased in land on a long-term basis. The minimum acceptable documentary evidence is a memorandum of agreement between the buyer and the seller dated within these dates.

The person in question failed to submit any legal document showing that an agreement had been made to purchase the land prior to the 19th October 2003. A deed of transfer dated 7th July 2005 was submitted, however this was outside the specified dates and therefore not valid. The Single Payment Committee upheld the decision of my Department to reject the appeal.