Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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629. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of a hardship grant will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4020/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Under the Hardship Grant Scheme, assistance is available from my Department to eligible herdowners who are restricted under the TB and Brucellosis Eradication Scheme. The Grant Scheme is designed to alleviate the additional feed costs incurred by eligible owner(s) whose holdings are restricted during the period from the 1 November to 30 April of a given year.

The holding in question was restricted under the TB & Brucellosis Eradication Scheme on 7 October 2013, following the identification of a suspect lesion on a clear animal presented for slaughter. Payment under the Grant Scheme, which commences 2 months after restriction, is currently being processed and will issue over the coming days.