Written answers

Thursday, 1 December 2016

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Basic Payment Scheme Payments

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of farmers under the areas of natural constraints scheme and basic payments scheme that have yellow card cases and are awaiting approval from the Commission before processing of their 2016 payments can take place if approved by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38262/16]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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There are no cases under the Basic Payment Scheme that are awaiting processing due to the implementation of the new yellow card rules.

Payment under Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme commenced on the third week of September as agreed under the Farmers Charter.  To date 87,038 beneficiaries have received in excess of €188m with payments continuing to issue as further cases are cleared.

Of those cases outstanding awaiting payment, a number have been identified as having an area over claim and therefore require the application of the new yellow card penalty regime  Whereas clarification in relation to the implementation of the new penalty regime for BPS was received at an early date, clarification on the implementation of this new penalty regime under ANC was only recently received from the Commission and my department is now making the necessary changes to the computerised payment procedure to allow further processing of these cases.  These cases have been prioritised for clearance.

To date 1566 cases have been identified as having an ANC area over declaration. The county breakdown is contained in the following table. 

CountyYellow card ANC cases
Carlow17
Cavan55
Clare114
Cork104
Donegal117
Dublin5
Galway178
Kerry104
Kildare3
Kilkenny28
Laois20
Leitrim58
Limerick41
Longford37
Louth17
Mayo231
Meath15
Monaghan60
Offaly38
Roscommon97
Sligo40
Tipperary75
Waterford18
Westmeath34
Wexford28
Wicklow32

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of farmers under the areas of natural constraints scheme and basic payments scheme that have yellow card cases that have been approved or declined by the Commission by county in tabular form; the total number of approved cases where 2016 payments have issued to date or will issue before the end of 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38263/16]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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There are no cases under the Basic Payment Scheme that are awaiting processing due to the implementation of the new yellow card rules.

Payment under Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme commenced on the third week of September as agreed under the Farmers Charter.  To date over 87,000 beneficiaries have received in excess of €188m with payments continuing to issue as further cases are cleared.  

Of those cases outstanding awaiting payment, a number have been identified as having an area over claim and therefore require the application of the new yellow card penalty regime  Clarification on the implementation of this new penalty regime under ANC was only recently received from the Commission and my department is now making the necessary changes to the computerised payment procedure to allow further processing of these cases.  These cases have been prioritised for clearance.

To date 1566 cases have been identified as having an ANC area over declaration.  The county breakdown below of these cases is set out in the following table. 

CountyYellow card cases
Carlow17
Cavan55
Clare114
Cork104
Donegal117
Dublin5
Galway178
Kerry104
Kildare3
Kilkenny28
Laois20
Leitrim58
Limerick41
Longford37
Louth17
Mayo231
Meath15
Monaghan60
Offaly38
Roscommon97
Sligo40
Tipperary75
Waterford18
Westmeath34
Wexford28
Wicklow32

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