Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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1174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) for refusal of a GLAS tier 1 payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35139/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted a GLAS 1 application and following the initial checks the Bird Box action was rejected resulting in the application not being approved as the minimum score of 16.3 was not achieved on the remaining actions.

The Department has reviewed this decision and has deemed the action eligible which means that the Bird Box action will be reinstated. Department officials are actively working to reinstate the application on the online system and carrying out the necessary checks with a view to approving the person named into the scheme.

Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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1175. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35142/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of the 1 October 2015 and has received full entitlements in respect of the 2015 scheme year.

The 2016 prepayment checking process identified that the parcel use declared for the basic payment scheme was incompatible with the Traditional Orchards action selected on the parcel. The person named has been contacted by Department and advised examine further if it is possible to amend his 2016 BPS land parcel declaration.