Gerard Murphy (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 1376: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will make all due payments to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; the amount that will be granted to the person in 2007; when all payments due from 2006 will be granted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2148/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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An amount of €818.99 issued on 21 September 2006 in respect of the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme 2006. The person named had no entitlements under the Single Payment Scheme as he was not farming during the reference period. He 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 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 person named applied under Category B(i) in relation to investment in land but has been deemed unsuccessful under this category as the date he leased the land was outside the period 1 January 2000 to 19 October 2003. The person named submitted an appeal against this decision and provided additional documentation in support of his appeal. In all such cases, the procedure is that all contentions put forward in support of an appeal are first of all reviewed within my Department to see whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant any change to the original decision. In this case the documentation was examined by my Department but did not provide grounds for a change to the original decision. This case has since been forwarded to the Independent Single Payments 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.