Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be issued with the result of their appeal under the disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5885/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

The person named submitted a 2014 Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas’ scheme application on 27 March 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 . 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 resulted 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 was notified of this outcome on 29 November 2014.

A request for a review of this decision has been received by my Department. This review request is currently being examined and the person named will be notified of the outcome as soon as possible. In the event that the person named is dissatisfied with the outcome of this review, the decision can be appealed to the independent Agriculture Appeals Office, within 3 months.

Payment, on the basis set out above, under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme issued to the nominated bank account of the person named on 26 November 2014.

Payment , on the basis set out above, of the advance and balancing payments under the Single Payment Scheme issued to the nominated bank account of the person named on 4 November and 1 December 2014, respectively.