Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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348. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an AEOS payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [4998/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named is an applicant under the Agri-Environment Options Scheme 2010. A Department review of the non-productive capital investment claims submitted by applicants was undertaken in 2014. This review shows irregularities with documentation submitted for reimbursement in some of these claims. A full Department investigation is now underway into this matter and further payments to any AEOS participants included in this review are being held for the time being.  A decision on any future payment cannot be determined until the findings of the investigation are to hand. My Department has written to each of the people concerned on 28 January to explain the situation.