Dan Neville (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick under the disadvantaged areas scheme for 2013. [41508/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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An application under the 2013 Single Payment Scheme /Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 18 April, 2013. Payment under Disadvantaged Scheme has not issued to the person named as the holding concerned cannot be confirmed as satisfying the Scheme’s minimum stocking density requirements.

Under the 2013 Disadvantaged Area Scheme, eligible applicants are required to have met a minimum stocking density of 0.15 livestock units for a retention period of seven consecutive months and to maintain an annual average of 0.15 livestock units calculated over the twelve months of the scheme year. Department records confirm sufficient livestock on the holding during the period 11 April, 2013 to 7 November, 2013. This period falls short of the minimum seven consecutive months required. Three donkey passports were subsequently submitted to the Department on 26 January, 2015. Following examination, these passports were deemed ineligible for the 2013 scheme year as they were not recorded in the ownership of the person named until 19 May 2014. Accordingly, the requirements for payment under the scheme were not met.