Paul Connaughton (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments under the rural environment protection scheme and the single payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8860/15]

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 15 May 2014. EU Regulations governing the administration of the Single Payment Scheme requires that in order to activate payment under the scheme an applicant must have one eligible hectare of land to accompany each entitlement held. As the person named does not currently hold any entitlements, no payment is due in respect of the 2014 Single Payment Scheme.

The person named commenced REPS 4 in June 2009 and received payments for the first five years of their contract. REPS 4 is a measure under the 2007-2013 Rural Development Programme and is subject to EU Regulations which require detailed administrative checks on all applications to be completed before any payments can issue. This process has now been completed and the 2014 REPS payment is now being processed with a view to payment at the earliest possible opportunity.