Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has received no basic payment or areas of natural constraint payment to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35804/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The closing date for applications to place farm partnerships on the Department's Register was 31 March 2016. The person's named lodged their application for partnership on 23 June 2016. In April 2016, they were jointly named on both their herdnumbers and applied to amalgamate their Basic Payment entitlements under one of these herdnumbers. However, separate applications under the 2016 Basic Payment/Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme were received in my Department from both persons named on 7 May 2016. In these circumstances payment cannot currently issue under the Basic Payment Scheme

An official from my Department has been in direct contact with the persons named with a view to resolving the issue at hand.