Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a payment under the agri-environment options scheme. [43516/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named commenced his AEOS 3 contract on 1 May 2013 and has been paid in full for the 2013 and 2014 scheme years.

Under the EU Regulations governing the Scheme and other area-based payment schemes, a comprehensive administrative check, including cross-checks with the Land Parcel Identification System, must be completed before any payment can issue.

It is expected that AEOS payments for the 2015 scheme year will commence shortly for those that have successfully come through the administrative checks and where there are no outstanding issues for those who have had on-the-spot inspections in 2015.