Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 404: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16717/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The amount of the premium payable to this applicant is under review and my Department will contact the applicant on the matter within the next week.

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 405: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a forestry premium will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16137/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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It is intended that the annual forestry premium payment will issue to this applicant shortly.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 406: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be granted REP scheme four; the reason they have not received payment. [16155/09]

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 407: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the entitlements associated with the herd number of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16161/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The Single Payment in Ireland commenced in 2005 and is applicable to farmers who actively farmed during the reference years 2000, 2001 and 2002, who were paid Livestock Premia and/or Arable Aid in one or more of those years. The gross Single Payment is based on the average number of animals and/or the average number of hectares (in the case of Arable Aid) on which payments were made in the three reference years. Single payment entitlements in respect of dairy production is based on the number of litres of milk quota held by the farmer on 31st March 2005.

The first person named was the registered owner of the herdnumber up until the 30 July 2002. The herdnumber is now registered in the joint names of the second person named and another person. There are no Single Payment entitlements associated with this herdnumber as the first person named did not receive premia payments during the reference years 2000 – 2002.

In addition it is noted that no Single Payment/Disadvantaged Areas applications have been submitted under this herdnumber.

Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 408: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment will issue under the forestry premium scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford. [16229/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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It is intended that the annual forestry premium payment will issue to this applicant shortly.