Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 202: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a farm waste management grant for a slatted house will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5436/09]

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. My Department is currently examining the application and a decision will be made as soon as possible.

Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 203: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a grant under the farm waste management scheme will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5438/09]

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.

Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 204: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a grant for a slatted house has not issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5441/09]

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 Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 205: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be granted the farm waste management grant. [5455/09]

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. My Department is currently examining the application and a decision will be made as soon as possible.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 206: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded a REP scheme four. [5456/09]

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.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 207: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when persons (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded a REP scheme four. [5457/09]

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 persons named and it is currently under further examination.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 208: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded a REP scheme four. [5458/09]

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.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 209: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded the farm waste management grant. [5460/09]

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. My Department is currently examining the application and a decision will be made as soon as possible.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 210: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under the suckler cow welfare scheme. [5461/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Payment of €80 in respect of one animal was issued to the person named on 14 November 2008. One other calf will not qualify for payment as it was registered outside the statutory requirement of 27 days from the date of birth. A letter in the matter issued on 10 February 2009.

Eight other calves showed errors on the animal event dates. These have now been resolved and payment will issue shortly in respect of these eight animals. The remaining seven calves were born in December 2008 and will become eligible for payment in due course if all the measures are carried out.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 211: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded a REP scheme four. [5462/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has no record of an application for REPS 4 from the person named. A REPS 3 payment application was received from him and it will be processed within the period set out in the current Charter of Rights for Farmers.

Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 212: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he will provide funding to his staff in order that approved applications under the waste management scheme for payments since December 2008 can be awarded; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that farmers under financial pressure are forced to wait months for payments while they are paying high interest in banks on outstanding loans. [5524/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The arrangements for payment of grants under the Farm Waste Management Scheme on a phased basis have now been confirmed with 40 per cent being paid this year as claims are approved. A further 40 per cent will be paid in early January 2010 and the remaining 20 per cent in January 2011. Payment of the initial 40 per cent to farmers will be made as expeditiously as possible.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 213: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded a REP scheme four. [5531/09]

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 the completion of detailed administrative checks on all applications. Payments are currently issuing to REPS 4 applicants whose applications required no correction following the administrative checks. Further payments will be made as applications are cleared.