Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a disadvantaged area scheme and single payment scheme payments have not been made in respect of a person (details supplied), when payments will issue and if penalties will be applied to their payments. [48817/14]

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 14 May 2014. He declared a number of commonage parcels on this application one of which, Parcel G 11306037 was declared for the first time in 2014. Following examination of the commonage evidence submitted for this parcel, it was rejected from his application on the basis that it did not meet the Terms and Conditions of the Schemes which state , inter alia, that any lands declared must be validly ‘owned, rented or leased’ by an applicant.



The area claimed in Parcel G 11306037 had, under the Terms and Conditions of the Single payment scheme, to be excluded from the calculation of eligible land for the person named thereby causing an over-claim of between 3% and 20%. This resulted in his Single Payment, which issued on 16^thDecember being based on a reduced eligible area.



Since the over-claim is in excess 50% of his declared area under the 2014 Disadvantaged Area Scheme, no payment is due to the person named under this Scheme.



My Department wrote to the person named on 17 November 2014 informing him of this decision and of his right to appeal. To date, no such appeal has been received in my Department. In the event that the person named wishes to seek a review of the decision he should do so in writing clearly setting out the grounds of the appeal.

Brian Walsh (Galway West, Independent)
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200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amounts payable in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway regarding their single payment scheme and disadvantaged area scheme payments for the years 2013 and 2014; when payment will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48832/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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An application under the 201 3 Single Payment/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received in my Department from the person named on 14 May 2013 . He had established 9.84 Transferred Standard entitlements at a unit value of € 206.46. Full payment has issued in respect of these entitlements to the nominated bank account of the person named. The first instalment issued on 16 October 201 3 and the balance issuing on 2 December 201 3 . An application under the 2014 Single Payment/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received in my Department from the person named on 14 May 2014. P ayment has issued in respect of this application to the nominated bank account of the person named. The first instalment issued on 20 October 2014 and the balance issuing on 1 December 2014.

The applicant was not eligible for payment under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme. Payments under the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued directly to the nominated bank account of the person named on 24 October 2014.

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers on a county basis awaiting the first instalment of their single farm payments and disadvantaged areas payments respectively; the corresponding value of payments outstanding; if he will ensure that a partial payment is made to all farmers while outstanding issues are being resolved; the corresponding number awaiting the final instalment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48843/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Only valid applications under the Single Payment Scheme that fully comply with the requirements of the EU Legislation are paid. Consequently all applications under the Scheme are subject to administrative checks. Over 98% of applicants have passed these checks and have been paid under the Single Payment Scheme.The remaining applications did not pass the validation process, went into error and cannot be paid pending a resolution of the error or the completion of the land eligibility inspection concerned. These errors include over-claims, dual claims and incomplete application forms. My Department is in correspondence with the farmers concerned in order to resolve these error cases.

The processing of the remaining unclear cases remains a priority with twice weekly payment runs being made to pay on applications as they are cleared for payment.

The payment details requested are as follows for the Single Payment Scheme: