Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if lands belonging to a person (details supplied) will now be included in the ANC scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40101/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The position in respect of farm partnerships under the ANC scheme is laid out in the 2017 scheme Terms and Conditions document as follows:

ANC and Partnerships

Applicants registered under Farm Partnership Registration are required to submit one 2017 Basic Payment Scheme and other Area-based Schemes application form through the Departments online facility. In order to be considered under the ANC scheme at an individual level each partner should individually declare all land farmed by them within the partnership.

1. All partners who declare designated ANC lands at individual level will be considered under the ANC scheme.

2. Individual maximum land thresholds will be applicable to each individual partner in respect of designated ANC lands declared.

3. Thereafter, scheme eligibility requirements in respect of the 7 month stock retention period and the annual average stocking density must be met at overall partnership level in respect of all forage hectares.

NOTE:Where the overall partnership holding fails to meet scheme eligibility requirements in respect of either the 7 month stock retention period or the annual average stocking density no payment will be due to the partnership or any of the partners.

Only one payment under ANC will issue to the Partnership. All Payments due to the individual partners will be combined into a single payment which will issue to the partnership.

The circumstances of this case have been reviewed and it is noted that in 2017 a total of 42.90 hectares was declared under farm partnership in question, which is a one herd partnership with only one registered herd number. As outlined above, the ANC Terms and Conditions provide for multiple payments within a partnership where lands are declared at an individual level and payments are based on individual maximum area thresholds as declared on the 2017 BPS/ANC application. However, as there is only one herd in the partnership in question, with all lands declared under same, only one ANC payment calculation is due on the 42.90 hectares declared and the maximum payable threshold of 30 ha being applied.