John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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672. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 519, if farm payments will be approved and paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [1348/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Under 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, there were two criteria to be satisfied in relation to those applicants availing of equines to meet the minimum stocking density requirement. Firstly, the holding itself was required to meet the definition of an Equine Breeding Enterprise and secondly, horses, in order to be taken into account for stocking density purposes, were required to be aged one to five years and, where older, must be a breeding mare for the purposes of the Scheme.

While the person named submitted details of one equine on the holding in 2012, this was not sufficient to meet the minimum stocking requirements. An official from my Department was recently in direct contact with the person named, following which the additional information to be submitted, as agreed, is currently awaiting, following receipt of which the case will be further investigated.