Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the dairy equipment scheme which was submitted and inspected in January 2015 will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31445/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The persons-named were approved for grant-aid towards the installation of milk-cooling equipment under the terms of the Dairy Equipment Scheme, which was part of the TAMS 1 package of on-farm investment measures introduced under the last Rural Development Programme. In line with the procedures laid down, all TAMS 1 grant applications are subject to a pre-payment inspection to ensure that the work approved has been carried out in full accordance with the Terms and Conditions of the Scheme. In this case a number of issues emerged following the inspection. These are now being examined and the Department will be in touch again with the applicants very shortly.