Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an appeal submitted to his Department by a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be reconsidered. [20260/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named was allocated 28.63 entitlements under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme.  For the 2016 Scheme Year, the person named submitted two Transfer of Entitlements applications to my Department to transfer 21.98 entitlements by way of gift to a third party and to lease 6.25 entitlements to a third party for a seven year period.

As the person named did not submit a 2016 or 2017 Basic Payment application to utilise the remaining 0.40 entitlements, these entitlements remained unused during this two year usage period and have been permanently moved to the National Reserve.

My Department received an appeal for the person named in relation to the removal of these 0.40 unused entitlements to the National Reserve. 

Following a thorough re- examination of the circumstances of the case, my Department issued the person named with a letter on  27 April 2018 notifying the person named that their appeal was unsuccessful. This letter provided the option to further appeal to their case to the Independent Agriculture Appeals Office if dissatisfied with my Department’s decision.