Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 504: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position in relation to an ongoing matter in regard to REP scheme payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42260/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Under the EU Regulations governing REPS, a participant must make an application for each annual payment. Failure to do so means that the contract must be terminated and all payments recovered, unless exceptional circumstances apply. In this case, my Department wrote to the person named on 13 September 2001, advising him that he had to lodge his third year payment application form by 31 October 2001. As he failed to do so, my Department had no option but to terminate his participation in the Scheme and seek to recover all the payments he had received. My predecessor stated in reply to Parliamentary Question No 159 of 4 November 2004 on the same case that if appropriate medical evidence was supplied the matter could be reviewed. However no medical evidence has ever been submitted to my Department.

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 505: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment will be made under REP scheme 4 to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42276/08]

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. The balancing 25% payment will follow when all 2008 REPS on-farm inspections have taken place. Following the resolution of industrial action in local offices of my Department, the administrative checking has been resumed with a view to releasing payments as soon as possible.

Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 506: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding a payment due to issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [42298/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the 2008 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on 12 May 2008. During processing of this application, issues arose regarding the eligibility of one of the land parcels declared, which have now been resolved. Payment will issue shortly to the person named.