Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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821. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single payment and disadvantaged area payment for 2012 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27657/13]

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 case was impacted by the requirement of a minimum stocking density of 0.3 livestock units per forage hectare and who applied for and was refused derogation in this regard. The person named subsequently availed of the option to appeal to the independently chaired DAS Appeals Committee; that appeal was unsuccessful. The appellant was notified accordingly by letter dated 14 March 2013.

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

With regard to the outstanding inheritance issues, My Department has written to the representatives of the person named on two occasions, requesting the usual testamentary documents and bank account details, and also outlining procedures for the transfer of schemes in which the person named was involved. My Department awaits further instruction on the matter.

The representatives of the person named should continue to communicate with the Inheritance Enquiry Unit so as to progress all outstanding issues.

Contact details are as follows:

Inheritance Enquiry Unit

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Eircom Building

Knockmay Road

Portlaoise

Payments cannot be released to the estate until the outstanding documents and bank account details are provided to my department.