Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing the 2017 basic payment scheme and area of natural constraints payments to a farmer (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27455/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The person named submitted an application for consideration under the both the 2017 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and the 2017 Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) scheme. 

Land parcels declared by the person named on the 2017 BPS application were also declared by another party. Following examination of the matter, my Department requested additional information from the person named to support his declaration of the land parcels concerned on his application.

Legal documentation was submitted by the person named.  However, it was not sufficient to finalise the processing of the 2017 BPS application as it did not include maps which were referred to in the legal documentation.  The map in question has now been received and this has facilitated my Department completing the processing of the 2017 BPS application. 

Payments due under the 2017 Basic Payment and the ANC schemes will issue shortly to the person named.