Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 337: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when an area aid payment will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20959/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The position is that an application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Area Compensatory Allowance Scheme was received from the person named on the 15th May 2007.

As part of the control procedures under EU legislation governing these Schemes, the application was selected for and was the subject of a ground eligibility and cross compliance inspection.

During the course of the ground eligibility inspection, questions arose as to the eligibility of the person named for the Single Payment/Disadvantaged Area Compensatory Allowance Scheme.

My Department wrote to the person named on the 4th April 2008 inviting her to attend a meeting with an official from my Department either at the person's home or at my Department's offices in Portlaoise. This letter was issued by ordinary post. A reply from the person named was received on the 15th April 2008 requested that my Department outline the issues to be discussed at the proposed meeting and some other related issues. My Department replied by registered post on the 8th May 2008. However, this letter was subsequently returned undelivered with a notation that the person named was "not at this address".

The person named has the contact details of the personnel within my Department who are dealing with the case and she should proceed to contact them now with a view to arranging the requested meeting in order to finalise her application.