Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when outstanding headage payments will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3841/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named is one of a number of applicants under the 2012 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, whose cases were impacted upon by the requirement to have achieved a minimum stocking density of 0.3 livestock units per forage hectare in 2011, and who applied for and were refused derogation in this regard. The person named subsequently appealed unsuccessfully to the independently chaired DAS Appeals Committee. The person named was informed accordingly and was advised of his right to pursue the matter with the Office of the Ombudsman.