Tony McLoughlin (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a non-productive payments capital investment claim by a person (details supplied); if a further appeal can be made into this person's appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14302/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department wrote to the person named on 14 October 2015 informing him that a determination had been made that, with the information to hand, all payments made to him under the Non-productive Capital Investment action of the Agri-Environment Options Scheme (AEOS) should be recouped and he should be excluded from payment under all agri-environment measures for two years. This determination arose because it was deemed that the claim for the reimbursement of costs for the purchase of trees under the scheme was greatly inflated.

The person named was offered an opportunity to have this determination reviewed within the Department by submitting further information and documentation, if they wished. A letter requesting a review was received from the person named on 23 October 2015.

A further letter issued from my Department on 24 February 2016 upholding the original determination. The person named was offered the opportunity to appeal this decision to the independent Agricultural Appeals Office (AAO), within three months of the date of this letter. There is no record of an appeal having being made to the AAO in this case.