Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review penalities imposed on a person (details supplied) in County Wexford regarding their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22362/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The penalty in this case was imposed because, according to my Department’s record, the amount of nitrogen from livestock manure applied to land on the holding in 2011 (including that deposited by animals) was 194 kgs per Hectare, which exceeded the limit of 170 kgs per hectare set down in the Nitrates Regulations. The financial penalty involved in this case represents 3% of 2011 Single Farm Payment and/or Disadvantaged Areas Scheme/REPS/AEOS, where applicable, for the person named.

It is open to the person named to appeal this deduction in writing, within a three month time limit from the date of notification which in this case was 16 April 2013, to the Agriculture Appeals Office, Kilminchy Court, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. The Agriculture Appeals Office is an independent body established to provide an appeals service to farmers in respect of decisions of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine relating to entitlements under the various schemes available. In making the appeal a person must include all the facts and contentions upon which they intend to rely on together with such documentary evidence that they may wish to submit in support of an appeal.