Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a payment under the basic payment scheme for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5350/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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EU Regulations governing the Basic Payment Scheme provide that all farmers who were eligible to receive a direct payment greater than €100 in 2013 (Single Payment, Grassland Sheep Scheme, Burren Life Scheme, Beef Data Scheme) have an automatic allocation right under the Basic Payment Scheme in 2015. The person named did not receive a direct payment in 2013 and therefore does not hold an allocation right into the Basic Payment Scheme.

The person named purchased entitlements in 2014 from the Estate of a deceased person and received Single Payment on those entitlements for that year, however this does not provide him with an allocation right into the new Basic Payment Scheme in 2015.