Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the circumstances under which 14 applications for installation aid were processed and paid in 2012; the number of applications still under active consideration by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2518/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Fourteen payments were made by my Department under the Young Farmers’ Installation Scheme or the preceding scheme, the Installation Aid Scheme, during the course of 2012. Of these, thirteen concerned payments in respect of applications to enter the schemes which were received prior to the date of suspension of the Young Farmers’ Installation Scheme on 14 October 2008.

In the remaining case, payment was made to an applicant who had successfully appealed to the Agriculture Appeals Office that my Department was required to process the file notwithstanding the fact that the application to enter the scheme had been received after the date of suspension referred to above. There have been two such successful appeals to the Agriculture Appeals Office and payment has now been made in both cases.

Two further payments were made under the above schemes in 2013 which also related to applications received prior to the date of suspension of 14 October 2008.

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in respect of installation aid applications considered by the agriculture appeals office in 2009, the circumstances surrounding the three successful appeals; the number of those appeals received in 2009 that are still under active consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2520/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Three appellants were successful in their appeals to the Agriculture Appeals Office during the course of 2009 in relation to either the Young Farmers’ Installation Scheme or the Installation Aid Scheme.

Details of the three cases concerned are as follows:-

I am advised by the Agriculture Appeals office that, there are no appeals still outstanding from 2009 in regard to either the Installation Aid Scheme or the Young Farmers’ Installation Scheme.