Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive their single farm payment for 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29368/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Applications under the 2015 and 2016 Basic Payment Schemes were received in my Department from the person named on 8 April 2015 and 29 April 2016, respectively.

In order to qualify for an automatic right to an allocation of entitlements under the Basic Payment Scheme in 2015, it was necessary to have been entitled to a direct payment (Single Payment Scheme, Grassland Sheep Scheme or Beef Data Programme) in 2013.

As the person named did not receive a direct payment in 2013 no Basic Payment Scheme entitlements could be allocated to him in 2015. Consequently, no payment is due to him under the Basic Payment Scheme in 2015 or 2016.