Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of area aid 2012 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19924/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Under 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, there are two criteria to be satisfied in relation to equines. Firstly, the holding itself must meet the definition of an Equine Breeding Enterprise and secondly, horses, in order to be taken into account for stocking density purposes, must be aged one to five years and, where older, must be a breeding mare for the purposes of the Scheme.

While the person named submitted eight equine passports, none was in respect of a breeding mare which foaled in 2009, 2010 or 2011. Therefore, as the Terms and Condition of the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme have not been satisfied, no payment is due for the year in question.