Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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99. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing a 2015 basic payment to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41906/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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To establish Basic Payment Scheme entitlements under the new CAP reform, the eligible land declared under the 2013 Single Payment Scheme, the 2014 value of owned entitlements and the 2015 eligible hectares declared under the Basic Payment Scheme needs to be taken into consideration.

As the ownership of this herd number changed into the company named above in 2014 and all the entitlement value was leased into the company in 2014, it was necessary to perform two entitlement transfers in 2014 and 2015 to ensure all three reference points were available to the company named in order to establish entitlement rights under the new CAP reform. This is currently being processed and payment will issue as soon as possible.