Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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1003. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25725/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The following table details the EU disallowances paid by my Department in the years 2015, 2016 and 2017.

The EU disallowance set out above occurs in the form of the exclusion from EU funding of EU funded and co funded agricultural schemes. €66,759,681.34 was for various schemes for the seven year period 2008 to 2014 inclusive. This relates mainly to Commission findings that some aspects of Irish control systems were insufficiently robust at excluding ineligible land from payments to farmers in EU funded schemes and represents 0.5% of the €12 billion in EU funding for these schemes in this seven year period. Some €64m of the amount was in respect of the years 2008 to 2012.

A financial correction/exclusion of €1,055,704.33 was imposed in respect of legislation governing the EU Scheme of Aid for Producer Organisations in the Fruit and Vegetables Sector for the 2009 and 2010 Scheme years and there was a €24,310 exclusion in respect of debtor notifications.