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 granted REP scheme four. [10375/09]

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 granted REP scheme four in view of the hardship the delay is causing. [10376/09]

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.

Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 210: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has recouped the €8 million plus from Coillte that was erroneously allocated under the EU farmer forestry premiums scheme; if not, when he will recoup this money; the reason there has been such a delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10477/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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No decision has been taken to date on the recoupment of forestry premium from Coillte as this issue is being considered within my Department in the context of Coillte's proposed strategy for the period 2008-2012. Consideration of this matter has taken some time because a number of important inter-related issues arose over that time which impinged on Coillte such as the Bacon Review and the longer-term strategy of Coillte itself. Queries have arisen during the administrative checks on the plan of the person named and it is currently under further examination.