Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 26 March 2015, if he will confirm the European Union regulatory basis for a verification visit under the single payment schemes and under the basic payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15526/15]

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

EU regulations governing the Direct Payment Schemes and other area based schemes requires my Department to carry-out administrative and on-the-spot checks to ensure that the land declared for aid is eligible for payment. The regulations further require that a physical inspection in the field is undertaken in the event that it is not possible to make an accurate determination on the eligibility or the correct size of a parcel or parcels of land by means of an assessment of the available ortho-im agery, Article 24(3) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 809/2014 refers.