Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is intended from 2015 onwards to pay the greening payment with the BNS payment; if it is intended to pay it in two tranches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7358/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Under the new regime, which will replace the Single Payment Scheme in 2015, with four separate elements, viz (i) the Basic Payment, (ii) the Greening element, (iii) the Top-up for Young Farmers and (iv) the coupled Aid for Protein. However, with discussions on-going at EU level on both the delegated Act and the implementing Act, it is not possible, at this stage, to indicate precisely what the payment arrangements will be.