Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 210: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will investigate the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo did not receive payment under the suckler cow welfare scheme for 2008. [20807/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The person named has four animals for consideration under the 2008 Suckler Welfare Scheme. Payment has issued for one of the animals. The remaining three are in error, as the applicant declared that they were castrated during the six-week meal feeding period. The rules of the scheme state that castration must take place outside this time. My Department has written to the person named to outline the situation. As the reply has not resolved the issue, an officer from my Department will be in contact shortly with the applicant.