Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Question 357: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will be awarded his single farm entitlements and other related payments due to him for 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18134/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the 2007 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 3 May 2007. The position is that no Single Payment is due as the person named had not established any Single Payment entitlements as he did not benefit from any Livestock and/ or arable Premia payments during the 2000 to 2002 reference period.

With regard to the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, processing of the application revealed that another applicant also claimed two of the land parcels declared by the person named. In response to correspondence from my Department in relation to this issue, the person named confirmed that he did not have the right to claim these parcels. Consequently, the regulatory Scheme penalties were applied; as the total over-claim exceeded 50%, no Disadvantaged Area payment was due for the year of application and an administrative fine, equivalent to the amount of aid payable on the difference between the area declared and area found, will be deducted from any payments under Direct Aid Schemes due to the person named in the subsequent three years.