Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 405 of 14 July 2015, the status of an application for the disadvantaged area scheme and agri-environment options scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Clare; when payment will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31132/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department is currently examining approximately 400 cases that submitted invoices from one particular company to verify and support claims under the non-productive capital investment action of AEOS. It is known that in some cases the invoices submitted were for greater amounts than actually paid by the participants. Funding provided under the scheme comes partly from the EU and partly from the National Exchequer. There is a requirement and obligation to ensure that the expenditure claimed by scheme participants reflects the reality of what took place. For that reason my Department wrote to participants requesting alternative proof that the amounts claimed were in fact the amounts paid.

The person named was written to on 8 June 2015 regarding the non-productive capital investment claim submitted. This letter requested alternative verifiable proof for one of the invoices included in the claim. A reply to this letter was received on 3 July. My Department officials are now examining this case; a decision will issue to the person-named shortly.

The payment of the 2014 Disadvantaged Area Scheme issued in full on 15 October 2014.