Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when forestry payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40512/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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This contract relates to a single tract of land which is owned by two separate applicants. The land is registered in the names of both of these applicants but it was divided equally to be the subject of two forestry contracts. One of the applicants is now disputing the entitlement to one of the plantations. The Forest Service cannot pay on a contract on which there is a dispute about legal ownership. The Forest Service wrote to both applicants informing them that payments must remain suspended on both contracts until this matter is resolved by the applicants and the Forest Service is notified accordingly.