Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the 2014 disadvantage areas scheme will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40066/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Payments under the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme began issuing, on target, on 24 September. Payment has not yet issued to the person named as, at this stage, the holding concerned has not yet satisfied the Scheme minimum and Agri Environment stocking density requirements. Immediately the holding concerned is confirmed as having met these requirements, the case will be further processed with a view to payment issuing to the person named at the earliest possible date thereafter, provided all other Scheme requirements have been satisfied.

Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare was penalised on the disadvantaged areas scheme 2013 when they claimed for an area of 56.89 hectares which they confirm is far in excess of the maximum payable area for disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40087/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Disadvantaged Areas Scheme provides for payment at crop group level. Crop groups are classified as an area that benefits from the same rate of aid under the Scheme. This means that the area declared as Mountain Type Grazing, More Severely Handicapped and Less Severely Handicapped Coastal Areas with Specific Handicaps, are classified as separate crop groups. Payments are made in order of first to Mountain Type Grazing, second to More Severely Handicapped Lowlandand third to Less Severely Handicapped Lowland and Coastal Areas with Specific Handicaps,so as to maximise the amount payable under the scheme. Under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, the person named declared lands in both the Mountain Type Grazing and More Severely Handicapped crop groups. Following a review of the land parcels declared by the person named, a number of ineligible features were identified in the Mountain Type Grazing crop group with the determined area reduced accordingly.