Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 564: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when an application will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4845/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned is an applicant for grant-aid under the Farm Waste Management Scheme. A decision will be made in respect of the application as soon as possible.

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Question 565: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a single farm payment will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4892/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 30 April 2008. This application was selected for a satellite eligibility inspection, which required a follow-up field visit being carried out by a Department inspector. During this visit, discrepancies were found in relation to parcels A11812095, A11812096, A11812097 and A11812102. As a result of these discrepancies the claimed area of 47.04ha was reduced to 45.03. If the total area found is not sufficient to support the number of entitlements held, penalties will be applied as per the Terms and Conditions of the scheme. In this case the number of entitlements held by the person named is 47.04. As the difference between the area declared and the area found is more than 3%, under EU Regulations, the difference between the area found and the area claimed is doubled and deducted from the area found. As a result the area put forward for payment under the Single Payment Scheme was 41.01 hectares. Notification of these results will be forwarded to the person named in writing as a matter of priority. If the person named is not satisfied with the results of the inspection, he may seek a review by contacting his Local Office. He also has the right to appeal the outcome of any such review to the Agriculture Appeals Office.

Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 566: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment of installation aid will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork, as all his documentation is now in order. [4920/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned is an applicant under the Installation Aid Scheme. His application has been approved and payment will issue shortly.

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 567: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment under the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5050/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned is an applicant for grant aid under the Farm Waste Management Scheme. A decision will be made in respect of the application as soon as possible.

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 568: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork, who is an applicant under the REP Scheme four will receive their first REP scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5052/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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REPS 4 is a measure under the current Rural Development Programme 2007-13 and is subject to EU Regulations which require detailed administrative checks on all applications to be completed before the first payments issue. The first payments for 2008 REPS 4 applications issued in the last week of January to those whose applications required no correction following the administrative checks. Further payments continue to be made as applications are cleared.

Queries have arisen during the administrative checks on the plan of the person named and it is currently under further examination.