Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork whose holding was the subject in previous years of a Department satellite and ground inspection and whose 2015 application was amended accordingly has found that an application has again been the subject of penalty for ineligible grounds; if he will offer a rational explanation for this given the previous approval of the lands involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44862/15]

Simon 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 28 April 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.

Following this inspection a maximum eligible area (MEA) of 108.65 Ha was determined. Payments issued on this basis under the Basic Payment and the Areas of Natural Constraint Schemes to the nominated bank account of the person named on 1 December 2015 and 26 November 2015 respectively. The person named was notified of the inspection findings on 18 November 2015 and of their right to seek a review. To date no such request has been received.

The person named was also selected for a remote sensing inspection in 2012 and a determined area of 124.23 HA was found as this area was greater than the total claimed area of the person named no penalty was incurred and payments on this basis under the Single Farm Payment and Disadvantaged Areas Schemes issued to the nominated bank account on 5 December 2012 and 10 December 2012 respectively.