Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the payments a person (details supplied) should receive for the organics farming scheme each year since the commencement date of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14904/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named is a participant in the Organic Farming Scheme. The area eligible for payment is the amount declared as organic on BPS for the year in question. However it should be noted that parcels included on certain actions in GLAS are not entitled to payment in the Organic Farming Scheme.

The person named has selected the GLAS actions Low Input Permanent Pasture and Traditional Hay Meadows so parcels that contain these actions are not entitled to a payment under the Organic Farming Scheme.

The Organic Farming Scheme attracts a payment of €220 per hectare during the 24 month in-conversion period and €170 per hectare for the remainder of the contract. The contract start date of the person named was 1 June 2015. Accordingly for 2017 he is entitled to payment for 7 months at the higher in-conversion rate and 5 months at the maintenance rate on an area eligible for payment under the Organic Farming Scheme of 23.494 hectares.