P J Sheehan (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 958: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) In County Cork will receive payment of their REP scheme four grant; the amount they will receive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11177/09]

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.

P J Sheehan (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 959: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of their REP scheme four grant; the amount they will receive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11178/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The first phase of the REPS 4 payment will issue to the person named in the next 10 days.

P J Sheehan (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 960: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their single farm payment; the amount of that payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11238/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Under the provisions of the relevant EU regulations governing the Single Payment Scheme, in order to draw down his or her full Single Payment, an applicant must declare an eligible hectare to accompany each entitlement. Furthermore, where entitlements were not claimed for a three-year period they revert to the National Reserve.

The person named had initially established 41.82 entitlements, but subsequently transferred 31.62 of those entitlements, retaining the balance of 10.20 entitlements to be utilized.

While applications under the 2005 Single Payment Scheme and 2006 Single Payment Scheme were received from the person named, no land was declared. No application under the 2007 Single Payment Scheme was received.

By letter dated 28 May 2008 the person named was informed that as he had not used his entitlements in 2005,2006 or 2007 they would be reverted to the National Reserve. While the person named was given an opportunity to submit observations prior to reversion of the entitlements, no response was received from him. Accordingly, the 10.20 entitlements were surrendered to the National Reserve on 27 June 2008 in accordance with the provisions of the governing EU regulations.

P J Sheehan (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 961: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their REP scheme three payment; the amount of that payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11239/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The file of the person named is currently being examined in respect of eligibility criteria. It is expected that this examination will be completed within the next ten days and the amount of the payment, if the application is found to meet the eligibility criteria, will depend on the precise details of the outcome.