Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 408: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will review a decision to impose a penalty on a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [18881/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The person named received two separate penalties, totalling €850.67, for breaches of the REPS undertaking. The penalties were imposed,firstly, for failure to stock-proof an external boundary and secondly was for non-compliance with a requirement in the agrienvironmental plan to create a new habitat and to have this new habitat stock-proofed. On the day of an inspection by an official of my Department, the area was not fenced off and there were sheep droppings on it indicating that animals had been grazing in the newly created habitat.

When the person named was informed of these penalties she was advised of her right to appeal to the Agriculture Appeals Office.