Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a matter (details supplied) regarding entitlements will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3736/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted three Transfer of Entitlement applications to transfer entitlements by way of lease under the 2017 Basic Payment Scheme. Two of the transfers have been fully processed but the third transfer remains outstanding as the transferee did not have a herd number and the transfer could not be processed. My Department has been in contact with this transferee and have been informed that the allocation of the herdnumber is in process.

Upon allocation of this herd number and following processing of the transferees 2017 Basic Payment scheme application the third transfer received from the person named will be processed. This will enable the activation of all the entitlements for the person named thus avoiding the risk of entitlements being lost to the National Reserve due to non-usage.

The person named has 51.67 entitlements in total. In 2017 he activated 29 and leased out entitlements under 3 transfer applications as follows

Transfer 1:  3.67 entitlements leased out for one year

Transfer 2:  5 entitlements leased out for one year

Transfer 3:  14 entitlements leased out for one year