Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of farm payments for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41724/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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An application under the 2017 Basic Payment Scheme / Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) Scheme was received in my Department from the person named on 15 May 2017.

Under the 2017 ANC Scheme, eligible applicants are required to meet a minimum stocking density of 0.15 livestock units for a retention period of seven consecutive months and to maintain an annual average of 0.15 livestock units calculated over the twelve months of the scheme year. Processing of the application has identified that the holding of the person named has not, as yet, met the stocking requirements as per the Terms and Conditions of the scheme. On completion of this requirement, the application will be further processed with a view to payment issuing directly to the nominated bank account of the person named at the earliest possible date.

Advance payments under the 2017 Basic Payment Scheme will commence, to cleared cases, from 16 October 2017.