Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 187: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be granted their tuberculosis reactor compensation grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12434/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Payment of compensation under the TB and Brucellosis On Farm Market Valuation Scheme in respect of an animal removed under the scheme been processed by the District Veterinary Office and will issue to the person concerned this week.

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 188: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be granted their installation aid grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12435/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Grant-aid under the Installation Aid Scheme was paid by my Department to the person concerned on 12 March 2009.

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 189: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has had a reduction in their single farm payment; if in view of the minimal over claim he will make arrangements for full payment of this grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12468/09]

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 the 1st May 2008. This application was selected for a satellite eligibility inspection, which required a follow-up field visit. During this visit, discrepancies were found in relation to parcels D28306026, D28306048, D28306049 and D28306047. As a result of these discrepancies the claimed area of 35.88ha was reduced to 33.02ha. 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 36.85. 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 27.30 hectares. The person named was informed of these findings on 24th March 2009 and of his right to seek a review of this decision within 21 days and of his right to appeal the out come of any such review.

Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 190: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) will receive their REP scheme four payment. [12478/09]

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 191: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of people who have yet to be paid in a scheme (details supplied) up until 20 March 2009 in tabular form. [12479/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Out of 12,292 applications received up to 31 December 2008, 6,194 have been paid and 6,098 are being processed. Information in respect of applications received since 1 January 2009 is not to hand as the closing date for these applications is 15 May.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 192: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for the delay in payment of a scheme (details supplied). [12480/09]

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 different EU Regulations from the preceding versions of REPS. Under REPS 4, all payments are to be made in just two instalments each year. The first payment, of 75%, could be made only when all administrative checks on all 2008 applications for REPS 4 and the Single Payment Scheme were completed. These included checks on areas and on the plan details. My Department's controls have to satisfy stringent EU regulatory and audit requirements.

The first payments for 2008 REPS 4 applications issued in the last week of January, 2009 to those whose applications required no correction following the administrative checks. Further payments continue to be made as applications are cleared. As processing of the remaining applications is continuing, it is not possible at this stage to say how many applications will be found to be ineligible or how many can be accepted at a reduced rate of payment for the first year, subject to later adjustment. Letters have begun to issue to farmers whose applications have already been examined and found to be in one or other of those categories and these letters will continue to go out in the coming weeks. My officials are in contact with Teagasc and the Agricultural Consultants' Association, which represents private planners, about the issues that are arising.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 193: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of people who have applied for a scheme (details supplied) and have been paid with a breakdown by county in tabular form. [12481/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Details of payments issued in each county are set out in the table. The information relating to the number of applications in each county is being collated and I will write to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 194: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of people in the country who have applied for a scheme (details supplied) in tabular form. [12482/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Information relating to the number of applications in each county is being collated and I will write to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 195: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of people who have been paid in a scheme (details supplied) up until 20 March 2009 in tabular form. [12483/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The information sought is set out in the table below:

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 196: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme payment. [12484/09]

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.