Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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1237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the 2016 GLAS 2 scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20570/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named was approved into GLAS 2 with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2016.

During the 2016 prepayment checking process an issue presented on the computerised crosscheck of Department databases. 

The person named has commonage land and my Department put in place a process last October requiring all farmers on the GLAS commonage data base to sign an Interim Commonage Management Plan to allow commonage payments to proceed. 

However at the time these forms issued the person named was not included in the GLAS commonage database and therefore did not receive the required documentation.  My officials have now contacted the GLAS commonage advisor in this case to have the necessary form signed and when this is returned the application will be processed for payment.

Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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1238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20571/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department received an application for the person named, for the third Tranche of GLAS (GLAS 3) and this application has been approved into GLAS 3 with a contract commencement date of 1 January 2017.

The first payment due to GLAS 3 participants is in respect of the 2017 scheme year and processing of such payments will commence towards the end of the year.