Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) has had a deduction taken off their area based payment following on from their land being digitized. [42893/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted an application for Single Payment on 2 May 2013 and declared four land parcels, which represented a claimed area of 83.25 hectares. Following a review by my Department of the eligibility of the land parcels declared, two of these parcels declared by the applicant included ineligible features, i.e. buildings, roads, rock and scrub amounting to an ineligible area of 2.57 hectares. Such areas are not eligible for payment under the Direct Payment Schemes such as the Single Payment Scheme and the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme.

The person named was notified of the position regarding these two parcels by letter dated 21 September 2013. The applicant submitted an application to my Department for a review of this decision on 3 October 2013. However, the person named did not provide any information to substantiate her application. It is open to her to submit supporting documentation to support this appeal.

Payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued to the person named on 7 October 2013 based on the maximum area payable of 34 hectares, as the determined area was greater than 34 hectares. The issue of payments under the Single Payment Scheme will commence on 16 October and the amount to issue to the applicant will be based on the reduced area pending the outcome of the review.