Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 171: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when REP scheme payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12295/09]

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.

Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 172: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received their 2008 single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12383/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The person named established Single Payment Entitlements to the value of €2214.32 based on premia payments made during the reference period 2000-2002 but did not activate these entitlements in 2005 as he did not submit a Single Payment application form in that year. EU Regulations governing the Single Payment Scheme provide that un-activated entitlements are reverted to the National Reserve in 2005.

The person named submitted a Single Payment application for the first time in 2008. He also submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements under Category B of the 2008 National Reserve. Category B caters for new entrants to farming who commenced farming after 31st December 2005 and who did not pursue any agricultural activity in his/her own name or at his/her own risk in the five years immediately preceding the commencement of the new agricultural activity. The person named did not qualify under the new entrant category of the National Reserve as Department records verify that he has been farming since 1998. As the person named does not hold Single Payment Entitlements he is not due payment under the 2008 Single Payment Scheme.

Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 173: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a REP scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12385/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Payment issued to the person named on 9 March 2009.

Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 174: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a slatted house grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12386/09]

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 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. I have also announced that a special ex-gratia payment not exceeding 3.5 per cent of the value of the deferred amount will be made to farmers whose Farm Waste Management grants have been partially deferred. This payment will be made in January 2011 along with the final instalment.