Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be paid their 2012 disadvantaged area based payment and single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49971/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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An application under the Single Payment / Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 15 May 2012. With regard to the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, the Terms and Conditions governing the Scheme require, inter alia, that applicants maintain a minimum stocking density on their holding of 0.15 livestock units per forage hectare declared, for at least six consecutive months, during the calendar year of application, in addition to maintaining an annual average of 0.15 livestock units. As the applicant has not met the required minimum stocking for six consecutive months, he therefore does not qualify for payment under the Scheme. The application under the Single Payment Scheme is being processed with the aim of issuing any payment due as soon as possible.

Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 498 of 9 October 2012, when payment of disadvantaged area aid payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49988/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted an application under the 2012 Single Payment Scheme on 10 May 2012. Issues arose in relation to two parcels on this application and the person named was sent correspondence relating to these. A response relating to only one of the parcels was received and this is currently under active investigation. My Department issued a further letter to the applicant on 9 November relating to the second parcel and we are awaiting a reply to this. I regret payment cannot be made until these issues are resolved.

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49991/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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While an application under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 15 May 2012, payment has not issued as the conditions of the Scheme have not been satisfied, at this stage. Although passports have been submitted, as the equines do not meet the Scheme criteria set out below, no payment is due.

To meet the eligibility conditions of the Scheme in this context, an applicant must, in the first instance be an equine breeder and have bred a foal, from a mare registered as on the applicant’s holding in 2011, in either 2009, 2010 or 2011, which was registered in a Stud Book approved by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, with pedigree recorded (sire and dam).

Where this criterion is met, the following equines will then be eligible for inclusion in the stocking density calculation for the 2012 Scheme: all equines aged one year to five years, (aged using 1 January), registered in the name of the applicant and maintained on his/her holding; breeding mares, registered as having been on the applicant’s holding in 2011, that have bred an appropriately registered foal in 2009, 2010 or 2011.