Written answers

Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications

Photo of Tom NevilleTom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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1226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 476 of 28 November 2017, the status of an application for an AEOS payment submitted by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1660/18]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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As outlined in my reply of 28 November 2017 to a previous question in relation to this case, a decision on payments under AEOS was issued by letter to the person named on 24 August 2016. The person named did not avail of the review procedure outlined at the time.

However, I did undertake to have the correspondence submitted by you with that question reviewed by my Department and that a response would issue to the person named shortly thereafter.

A review of the file was undertaken and a response upholding the original decision was issued to the person named on 30 November 2017. That decision was that all payments made under the Non-productive Capital Investment actions should be recouped and that the person named should be excluded from the scheme for 2 years. 

The person named was also offered the opportunity to appeal this decision to the Agricultural Appeals Office within three months of the date of the letter. This period will expire at the end of February 2018. 

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