Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not received headage payments since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24242/13]

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.

The applicant subsequently availed of the option to appeal to the independently chaired DAS Appeals Committee; however, the appeal was unsuccessful and the appellant was notified accordingly by letter dated 9 January 2013.

As advised in that letter, it is now open to the person named to pursue the matter with the Office of the Ombudsman.