Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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105. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under the areas of natural constraints scheme; and if he will clarify why the Department did not make contact with the herd owner to indicate that there was an error on the file prior to payments commencing, given that the delay is causing undue hardship. [33704/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted a 2015 Basic Payment /Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme application on 29 May 2015. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases Remote Sensing (i.e. satellite) inspections, be completed before any payments issue. Advance payments under the Basic Payment Scheme will commence issuing to eligible applicants from 16 October 2015.

The application of the person named was selected for a Remote Sensing eligibility inspection. This inspection is currently being finalised with the intention of issuing any payment due under the Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme as soon as possible. In the event that any queries arise officials in my Department will be in contact with the person named.