Written answers

Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Agriculture Scheme Payments

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage penalty that applied to payments to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the resulting financial penalty that applied payments under the basic payment scheme, and under the areas of natural constraint scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40598/15]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted a 2015 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS)/Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) Scheme application on 29 May, 2015.

This application was subject to land verification checks which were recently finalised. This process resulted in the claimed area of 11.12 hectares being reduced to 10.70 hectares.

Under the ANC scheme, as the difference between the area declared and the area found is more than 3%, the difference between the area declared and the area found is doubled and then deducted from the area found. As a result, the area payable for the ANC scheme is 9.86 hectares.

Under the BPS scheme the penalty situation is calculated differently, and in this case the determined area is 10.29 hectares. As the overclaimed area of 0.42 hectares in this case is 4% of the determined area of 10.29 hectares, a ‘double the difference’ penalty of 0.84 hectares has been applied.

Photo of James BannonJames Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive payment under the single payment scheme which has been due since September 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40634/15]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon 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 11 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.

The application of the person named was selected for a Remote Sensing eligibility inspection. This inspection has now been completed and the results have been finalised. Payments due will shortly issue to the nominated bank account of the person named.

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