Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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260. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when payment under the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme on special areas of conservation bogs will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [25641/15]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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An application for compensation under the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme has been received by my Department from the individual referred to in the Deputy’s Question. The qualifying criteria for the scheme are that:

· The claimant must have a legal interest in one of the 53 raised bog special areas of conservation – ownership or turbary right;

· The claimant must have been the owner or entitled to exercise turbary rights on the land in question on 25 May 2010;

· The turbary on the site must not be exhausted;

· The claimant must have been cutting turf on the land in question during the relevant five year period; and

· No turf cutting or associated activity is ongoing on the property.