Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 617: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a herd number will be reactivated for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15117/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The above herd number has been dormant herd number since June 2005 following the removal of all of the stock from the holding.

In order for this herd number to be re-activated, an application for registration as a keeper of animals under the Disease Eradication Schemes must be submitted on Form ER1 to the District Veterinary Office (this form is available from DVO). No such application regarding this herd number has been received in the DVO since the herdnumber was made dormant. Following receipt of a completed ER 1 form, the herd number can be reactivated provided that my Department is satisfied that all the relevant criteria have been complied with.

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.