Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 579: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if it is correct that a payment (details supplied) is not being paid to applicants until every applicant is approved. [39574/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Where a valid REPS 4 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.