Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 616: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the issue with the computerised mapping system in her Department will be resolved to enable REP scheme four applications to be accepted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33297/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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There is no difficulty with the computerized mapping system (e-REPS) which is hosted by Teagasc on my Department's behalf and is available to all planners. The re-engineering of e-REPS to accommodate the new options and supplementary measures introduced in REPS 4 has been fully available since 8 November 2007. Since 1 September 2007 it has been possible to prepare applications manually, in advance of the re-engineering of e-REPS, and applications prepared in this way have been accepted in my Department's local offices since that date and are being processed.