Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway can expect to receive payment of all grants applied for in view of the fact that the Department has suspended payments pending a review of entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41838/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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An application under the 2014 Single Payment/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received in my Department from the person named on 15 April 2014. Following processing, a dual claim was discovered in respect of one land parcel declared on this application. My Department has received, and is currently examining , legal documentation regarding the title of this land parcel as submitted by the person named and the competing claimant. As soon as a decision on this matter is reached, the application of the person named will be further processed.

Paul Connaughton (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason no payments have issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway in relation to disadvantaged area scheme or single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41867/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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An application under the 2014 Single Payment/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received in my Department from the person named on 26 April 2014. Following processing, an overclaim was discovered in respect of one land parcel. This matter has now been resolved and the application is being processed for payment.

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 7 May 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 EU Regulations also require that where it is not possible to make an accurate determination on the eligibility of a parcel or parcels of land by means of an assessment of the available satellite imagery, a field inspection must to undertaken to verify the eligibility of the land.

The application of the person named was selected for a Remote Sensing eligibility inspection. Initial processing of this inspection identified a requirement to verify the eligibility of land declared by means of a field inspection.

On completion of this inspection the results will be finalised with the intention of issuing any payment due as soon as possible. In the event that any queries arise officials in my Department will be in contact with the person named.