Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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Question 752: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26895/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted an application in 2008 to participate in the Suckler Welfare Scheme. The Terms and Conditions of this scheme require that applicants must undertake the prescribed measures on all beef breed cows and the calves they are suckling on the holding for the full term of the five year period of the Scheme and notify these measures to the Department.

No information has been received for any of the animals born in 2009 and as the Terms and Conditions of the Scheme were not complied with the person named was excluded from the scheme for 2009 and subsequent years. A review of this decision was sought by the herd owner by letter dated 6th March 2012 and following this review the decision to exclude the person named was upheld. A letter issued to the applicant on 31 May 2012 notifying him of the position and advising him of his right to appeal this decision to the Agriculture Appeals Office.