Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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285. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a basic payment scheme payment for 2016 will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17415/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named is not eligible for payment under the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) as they hold no BPS entitlements.

An application under the Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) Scheme was received from the person named on 10 May 2016.

Under the Terms and Condition of the ANC scheme applicants are required to occupy and farm in their own right and at their own risk a minimum of 3 hectares of designated ANC forage land. 

As the person named only applied for 2.2 hectares of ANC land they are not eligible for payment under the scheme.