Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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919. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when REP scheme 4 and agri-environment option scheme 1, 2 and 3 payments for 2013 will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46566/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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REPS 4 is a measure under the Rural Development Programme, 2007-2013, and is subject to EU Regulations which require detailed administrative checks on all applications to be completed before payments can issue. Arrangements are well advanced to issue payments in respect of 2013 and I expect that these payments will commence in November.

Similarly all AEOS payments require detailed checks on all applications before payments can issue. Payments under the Agri Environment Options Schemes 1 and 2, in respect of the 2013 Scheme year will commence once these administrative checks have been carried out on all applications. These checks must be successfully completed before payment can issue to any individual farmer. These administrative checks are well underway and I anticipate payments will commence in November. In relation to the AEOS 3 Scheme payments will commence in the first quarter of 2014.