Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding applications for single farm payment in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Sligo. [40495/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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EU Regulations governing the administration of the Single Farm Payment and Disadvantaged Areas’ schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases Remote Sensing (i.e. satellite) inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The person named in the first case submitted a 2014 Single Farm Payment scheme application on 29 April 2014. This application was selected for a Remote Sensing eligibility inspection. This inspection was completed and the advance payment under the 2014 Single Payment Scheme issued to the nominated back account of the person named on 20 October 2014.

The person named in the second case submitted a 2014 Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas’ scheme on 13 May 2014. This application was selected for a Remote Sensing eligibility inspection. This inspection has been completed. Processing will now be finalised and I expect that payments will issue shortly to the nominated bank account of the person named.