Written answers

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Basic Payment Scheme Payments

Photo of Michael Healy-RaeMichael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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1024. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9941/16]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted a 2015 Basic Payment Scheme/Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme application on 29 May 2015. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases Ground Eligibility inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a Ground Eligibility inspection. This inspection identified an over-declaration in area of between 3% and 20% in respect of the Basic Payment Scheme. Under the Terms and Conditions of this scheme, this resulted in the 2015 payment being based on the area found having be en reduced by double the difference between the area declared and the area found. Payment due on this basis issued to the nominated bank account of the person named in December 2015. The over-declaration in area did not impact on the payment due under the 2015 Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme, which issued in December 2015.

The person named was notified of the inspection decision on 7 December 2015. The person named sought a review of this decision, the outcome of which was to uphold the original inspection findings. The person named was notified of this outcome on 3 May 2016.

If the person named is dissatisfied with the outcome of this review, the decision can be appealed to the independent Agriculture Appeals Office, within 3 months.

Photo of Michael Healy-RaeMichael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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1025. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Photo of Michael Healy-RaeMichael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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1026. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment to a person (details supplied) under the basic payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9943/16]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted a Transfer of Entitlements Allocation Right and Reference Value application to my Department seeking the transfer of allocation rights and values by Change of Legal Entity as transferee. As the ownership of the herd number shown had been amended following the submission of the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme application, it was necessary for the person named to submit a Declaration of Undertaking form to my Department. This form has been received, the application has been processed and payment under the Basic Payment Scheme will issue shortly. The person named also submitted applications under the ‘young farmer’ category of the 2015 National Reserve and the Young Farmers’ Scheme. My Department has written to the person named requesting the submission of additional documentation to facilitate further processing of these applications. To date this documentation has not been forwarded to my Department. Once the relevant documents have been received the applications will be finalised, with a view to payment issuing as soon as possible thereafter.

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