Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) will have farm payments processed; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29512/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

An application under the 2016 Basic Payment Scheme/Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) Scheme was received in my Department from the person named on 14 April 2016.

Under the 2016 ANC Scheme, eligible applicants are required to meet a minimum stocking density of 0.15 livestock units for a retention period of seven consecutive months and to maintain an annual average of 0.15 livestock units calculated over the twelve months of the scheme year. Payment under the ANC scheme has not issued in this case as, at this stage, the holding concerned has not satisfied the scheme’s minimum or annual total stocking density requirements. Documentation in this regard has been received from the person named. This documentation is currently being reviewed and an outcome will issue to the person named in due course.

Advance payments under the 2016 Basic Payment Scheme will commence, to cleared cases, from 17 October 2016.