Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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350. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the position regarding headage payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18292/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named was one of a number of applicants under the 2012, 2013 and 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, whose cases were impacted by the requirement to have had a minimum stocking density of 0.3 livestock units per forage hectare under the 2011 Scheme. My Department wrote to all concerned applicants in August 2012 giving them the opportunity to seek derogation from this requirement. However, as the person named did not apply for the 2012 and 2013 Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme she did not receive the letter already referred to above. I have arranged for an official from my Department to issue the letter relating to the derogation application to the person named.