Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 335: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44000/10]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 13 May 2010. A number of parcels listed on the application required re-digitisation and as a result one of the parcels was identified as being over claimed by the applicant. My Department wrote to the person named in this regard and following a request from the person named for a review, which was carried out by my Department. The outcome of the review was that the parcel was still found to be over claimed. Payment will now issue in the coming days on the basis of the reduced eligible area.

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 336: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44001/10]

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 11 May 2010. This application was selected for and was the subject of a Ground Eligibility and Full Cross Compliance Inspection.

The inspection process is complete and the results are now being processed.

Under EU regulations governing the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme and the Single Payments Scheme all Ground Eligibility Inspections must be completed before any payment can issue to any applicant under either scheme, including those not selected for a Ground Eligibility Inspection.

In the vast majority of cases that were inspected amendments have had to be made to the maps in order that the Land Parcel Identification System that is used for making payments to farmers is kept up-to-date. Processing of these changes is continuing with priority being given to applications that were the subject of a Ground Eligibility Inspection.

Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 337: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the fact that moneys overpaid to persons, through no fault of their own, particularly in respect of forest premiums, are being recouped in full from their direct payments; if he will put in place arrangements whereby such payment would be deducted over a period of at least three years as farming families cannot survive on the current economic climate on the payments issued once deduction is made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44010/10]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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In cases where the conditions of the Afforestation Grant and Premium schemes (including FEPS) have not been complied with, in order to protect public funds the Department will commence recovery of the amounts paid to the applicant. The applicant is notified in writing and given 30 days for repayment. Any amounts outstanding after this time will be deducted from the next scheme payment. In cases of financial hardship the applicant may contact the Forestry Division of my Department to request repayment over an extended period.

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 338: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will expedite an application for single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44044/10]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme was received from the person named on the 10 May 2010. The advance payment, which issued on 18 October, was on the basis of the area cleared at that stage, as a number of the parcels listed on the application required re-digitisation. The balancing payments under the Scheme are scheduled to commence issuing as and from 1 December and, as the digitising process is now complete, the full balancing payment due to the person named will issue at that stage.

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 339: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps he will take to expedite payments of the single farm payment to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44079/10]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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An application under 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 7 April 2010. Advance payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued on 21 September and under the Single Payment Scheme on 18 October 2010, both on the basis of the land cleared at that stage. Parcels listed on the application of the person named required re-digitisation; while this process is now complete it was found that the reference area on a parcel had been over-claimed. This error has been raised with the person named and on receipt of a satisfactory reply the application will be further processed, with a view to issuing payments at an early date.