Written answers

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Department of Agriculture and Food

Grant Payments

9:00 pm

Photo of Martin FerrisMartin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 398: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he will make full payment of the farm waste management scheme. [3363/09]

Photo of Brendan SmithBrendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The arrangements for payment of the grants due to farmers under the revised Farm Waste Management Scheme which closed for the receipt of payment applications at the end of 2008 are currently under review.

Photo of Willie PenroseWillie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 399: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will take steps to review a decision not to award a grant to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3392/09]

Photo of Brendan SmithBrendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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In December last I announced ex-gratia payments to a number of animal welfare organisations involved in the delivery of animal care. In order to be considered for such payments, animal welfare organisations were required to fulfil a number of conditions including the completion of a standard application form. Advertisements inviting applications for funding were placed in the national press in July 2008 and details were also posted to my Department's website.

While the person concerned submitted some documentation to my Department in connection with ex-gratia funding, a completed application form was not received. My Department was in contact with the person concerned by phone, email and by letter on this matter between September and December 2008 but despite this the person concerned did not submit an application form for funding and therefore it was not possible for my Department to make an assessment for funding.

If my Department is in a position to provide ex-gratia funding to animal welfare organisations in 2009 and if the person concerned submits an application for funding at the appropriate time, it will be considered in the light of resources available and having regard to competing claims submitted by other animal welfare bodies and providing all eligibility criteria is fulfilled.

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