Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 125: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason an application for transfer of single payment entitlements have been refused for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29025/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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An application for the Transfer of Entitlements without land under the 2007 Single Payment Scheme to the first named person was submitted on the 3rd April 2007. The Regulations governing the Transfer of Entitlements allow Single payments entitlements to be transferred without land only if the transferor has used at least 80% of his/her entitlements in one calendar year. A person uses entitlements by submitting one hectare of land per entitlement on their Single Payment Scheme application form. This application for the Transfer of Entitlements from the second person named to the first person named was rejected, as the second person named did not use 80% of his entitlements in 2005. A formal letter outlining this decision issued to the persons named on the 30th October 2007.