Paul Connaughton (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 555: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received their suckler cow scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25439/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named registered nineteen beef breed animals in 2009, sixteen beef breed animals in 2010 and twenty six beef breed animals in 2011 under the Suckler Welfare Scheme.

Under the Terms and Conditions of the Scheme each participant is required to carry out a series of measures and to submit notification of the dates that these measures had been undertaken. A review was carried out during 2010 and it was found that no notifications were received from this herd owner for any of his animals born during 2009 and 2010. The person named was informed in writing by my Department that all of the required information must be submitted by 12 September 2011 and that failure to do so would result in his participation in the Scheme been terminated. The relevant forms for the provision of this data accompanied this letter. The information was not received within the specified timeframe and, therefore, the person named is no longer eligible to participate in the Scheme. It is open to him to seek a review of this decision.