Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a suckler cow scheme has not been paid to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [20327/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named registered 17 animals for the 2010 Suckler Welfare Scheme. Payment has been made in respect of 11 animals and further information was sought in relation to the remaining animals. Insufficient information was received on which to review the case and the matter cannot be progressed until the required information has been received. The person named registered 15 animals for the 2011 Suckler Welfare Scheme and 19 animals for the 2012 Scheme. The Terms and Conditions of the Scheme require that applicants undertake to carry out and notify to my Department details of the requisite measures for the full 5 years of the Scheme. While data were received in respect of most of the animals born during 2012, the required weaning information was not received for animals born during 2011. Therefore, payment cannot be considered for any of the 2011 or 2012 born animals until the weaning information is received for the animals born in 2011. The relevant forms have been sent to the applicant and when these have been returned, the matter can be progressed.