Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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216. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under the 2015 basic payment scheme and the areas of natural constraint scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay, the number of entitlements this person has; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44850/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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An application under the 2015 Basic Payment/Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) Schemes was received from the person named on 27 May 2015.

Processing of the ANC application was completed and payment issued on 2 November 2015 in relation to Mountain Area land. Further information was received from the person named on 28 November 2015 regarding the status of his land vis a vis the support under the ANC scheme for island land. This information is currently being reviewed.

The person named also submitted a 2015 Private Contract Clause application to my Department to have 9.33 hectares and the corresponding entitlements transferred to him by lease. The transferor under this application was also transferor to a third party under a separate Private Contract Clause. My Department wrote to the transferor on 1 December requesting further information in relation to a land lease in order to finalise processing of these two applications. This information has now been received and the application pertaining to the person named can now be processed to allow for the transfer of land and corresponding entitlements. Payment under the Basic Payment Scheme will issue as soon as possible.