Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 426: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment will be made under the REP scheme 4 to persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37966/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Where a valid application has been submitted, advance payments of 75% under the EU regulations governing REPS 4 can issue only when all administrative checks on all 2008 applications for REPS 4 and the Single Payment Scheme are completed. This work is still ongoing with a view to beginning payment this month. The balancing 25% payment will follow when all 2008 REPS on-farm inspections have taken place.

Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 427: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the area based payment will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37968/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the 2008 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the persons named on 13 May 2008. The Terms and Conditions governing the scheme require, inter alia, that applicants maintain a minimum stocking density on their holding of 0.15 livestock units per forage hectare declared for at least three consecutive months. However, where the holding of an applicant is identified as not meeting this minimum requirement, the person in question is invited to submit evidence of satisfactory stocking i.e. Flock Register, Horse Passports. Alternatively the applicant can submit details of a REPS or Commonage Framework Plan, if appropriate, which provides for a lower stocking level.

The persons named were written to on 10 October 2008 and invited to submit appropriate evidence of the numbers of livestock maintained on their farm. On receipt of a satisfactory response from the persons named, the application will be further processed with a view to payment at an early date.