Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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435. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 368 of 3 December 2013, the reason the question was not answered in full; the date on which the third task under the BTAP 2012 scheme was selected and completed by a herd owner; the date on which his Department was notified of the completion of the third task; and the person within his Department who signed off on the decision to allow credit for the successful completion of this task. [52891/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named selected two Tasks under the 2012 Programme - Tasks 6 and 8. At validation he was found not to have completed Task 6. No third Task was selected.

Following a decision to review all cases which had not initially been confirmed eligible for payment, it was established from a file received from ICBF on 14 May 2013, that the person named had successfully completed Tasks 2 and 3; he was, therefore, deemed to be eligible under the 2012 Programme, notwithstanding that he had not selected either of these Tasks, nor had he sought to substitute either, or both, of the original Tasks selected. His case was one of 683 participants in the 2012 Programme who were similarly deemed eligible on review and were subsequently paid in July 2012.

Further to procedure under SO 40A, full details regarding decision making will be forwarded to the Deputy.