Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42140/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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An application under the 2014 Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 12 May 2014. Processing of this application has recently been finalised and payment will shortly issue to the nominated bank account of the person named.

Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for disadvantaged and single farm payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [42142/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted a 2014 Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas scheme application on 16 April 2014. EU Regulations governing the administration of these 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 application of the person named was selected for a Remote Sensing eligibility inspection and this inspection has been completed.

The inspection identified discrepancies between the areas declared and the area found resulting in an over-declaration in area of between 3% and 20%. Under the Terms and Conditions of these schemes, this results in the 2014 payments being based on the found area having been reduced by double the difference between the area found and the area declared. The person named will be notified of the outcome of the inspection shortly and of the right to seek a review of this decision.

Payments due, on the basis set out above, under the 2014 Single Payment Scheme and the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme have been finalised and will issue shortly to the nominated bank account of the person named.