Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm penalty in respect of a person (details supplied). [29663/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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A payment of €1,376.62, exclusive of the cost of genotyping, issued to the person named on 13 December 2016. A further payment of €83.13 was issued recently making a total payment of €1,459.75, exclusive of genotyping costs, under the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) in respect of scheme year 2016.

Under the Terms and Conditions of the BDGP calves are required to be retained in the herd until 5 months of age to enable accurate recording of the survey data, in particular the docility and quality of these calves. One of the calves was sold before 5 months of age.

Department records indicate that the sire of two calves was not moved into the herd in accordance with AIM requirements.

Non compliance with both of these requirements has resulted in a minor reduction of €26.25 being applied to the gross payment.