Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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229. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13392/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted a 2017 Basic Payment/Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme application on 4 May 2017. Under the Terms and Conditions of these schemes, an applicant, as well as meeting the scheme criteria, must comply with EU regulatory requirements relating to Cross Compliance. 

The person named was selected for a Full Cross Compliance inspection which was undertaken on 12 December 2017. During the course of this inspection a non-compliance with the requirements of GAEC Standard 7 relating to Landscape Features was determined. This resulted in a 5% cross compliance penalty being applied against the 2017 Direct Payments Schemes. 

The person named was notified of the final outcome of the inspection, which took account of representations made on behalf of the person named, on 31 January 2018. The person named was also informed of the right to seek a review of this decision.  My Department has no record of a further request for a review being submitted by the person named to date.

In the event that the person named is dissatisfied with the outcome of any such review the decision can be appealed to the independent Agriculture Appeals Office, within 3 months.