Dan Neville (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding payments or organic rep scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [22154/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named commenced REPS 4 in June 2008 and received payments for the first four years of their contract.

REPS 4 is a measure under the current 2007-13 Rural Development Programme and is subject to EU Regulations which require detailed administrative checks on all applications to be completed before any payments can issue. The application of the person named was also selected for an on farm inspection. In the course of this inspection, carried out in June 2012, penalties amounting to 22% were imposed for failure to abide by the Terms and Conditions of the REP Scheme in relation to Measure 2 “Grassland and Soil Management ”. This penalty was subsequently reduced to 6% following an appeal and the 2012 payment has issued based on this revised decision - 75% payment for the amount of €5,400.82 issued dated 9 May and the 25% balancing payment amounting to €2,556.68 issued dated 10 May.

The person named also received 75% of his 2012 organic payment which amounts to €3,368.35. The balancing 25% payment will issue shortly.