Written answers
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Single Payment Scheme Appeals
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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80. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is any further recourse open to a person (details supplied) relating to a certain appeal concerning 2014 SPS area over declaration. [29971/16]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The Agriculture Appeals Office issued a decision letter to the person named on 6 October 2015. A decision of an Appeals Officer is final and conclusive, except in the following circumstances:
- An Appeals Officer may review a decision where there is new evidence, new facts or a relevant change in circumstances that were not made known during the appeals process;
- The Director of Agriculture Appeals may revise a decision where there has been a mistake made in relation to the law or the facts regarding the decision;
- An appellant may request the Office of the Ombudsman to review the case;
- An appellant may appeal a decision to the High Court on any question of law.
It is open to the person named to consider which, if any, of the foregoing recourse options may be appropriate to his circumstances.
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