Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to explain the reason persons (details supplied) in County Wexford were only able to make one application under the new farmer entry top-up additional payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16714/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department’s records show that the two people named above took over the herd number listed above in joint names in early 2015.

The additional top up payment referred to by the Deputy is made under the Young Farmers’ Scheme. The EU regulations governing the Scheme provide that the young Farmers’ Scheme payment is subject to a maximum number of 50 activated entitlements, whether the herd number is registered in the name of an individual person or a group of persons, including joint herd number. The provisions of this Regulation are binding on all Member States and my Department has no discretion with regard to its implementation.