Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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349. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single payment application for 2013 will be finalised and issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [15302/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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In order to comply with EU requirements, the 2013 Single Farm Payment Scheme application of the person named was selected for a ground eligibility inspection and a cross compliance animal identification and registration (IDR) inspection. The cross compliance inspection identified breaches in relation to sheep identification and registration requirements resulting in a 20% penalty being recorded against the 2013 payments. The person named was notified of this decision on 20 September 2013.

The eligibility inspection resulted in findings of an over-declaration in area of greater than 50%. Based on the terms and conditions of the scheme this resulted in no payment in respect of the 2013 Single Payment Scheme and the application of an administrative fine to be offset against any future EU payments. The person named was notified of this decision on 16 October 2013.

The person sought a review of these decisions and the outcome was to uphold the original decision in respect of the eligibility inspection and to reduce the cross compliance penalty to 5%. The person named was notified of this outcome on 14 March 2014. The person named was also notified of the right to appeal the decision to the independent Agricultural Appeals Office. My Department understands that to date no such appeal has been received by that office.