Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a review is to be carried out to allow a person (details supplied) the opportunity to apply for entitlements of the basic payment scheme 2015 under force majeure. [10222/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted a Force Majeure application to my Department requesting the value of entitlements he sold in 2014 to be taken into consideration when calculating his entitlement allocation under the Basic Payment Scheme. 

My Department examined the circumstances of this application and despite exploring all possible avenues the application was deemed to be unsuccessful as it did not fit the criteria required to deem it a case of ‘force majeure’. Furthermore the entitlements which were sold by the person named in 2014 have subsequently been used to calculate the value of entitlements in the accounts of the purchasers.

The person named was informed in writing of this decision and provided with the option to further appeal his case to the Agriculture Appeals Office. To date no such appeal has been received.