Paul Connaughton (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason no payment in relation to a disadvantaged area scheme issued to a person (details supplied) in County Galway in respect of 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23726/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named is one of a number of applicants under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, whose cases were impacted by the requirement that their holdings must have achieved a minimum stocking density in 2011 of 0.3 livestock units per forage hectare and who applied for and were refused derogation in this regard. While the person named was been informed of the option to appeal to the independently chaired DAS Appeals Committee, to date, this option has not been availed of.