Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

362. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29748/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

An application for compensation under the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme was received by my Department on 20 June 2018 from the individual referred to in the Deputy’s Question.

With respect to 53 raised bog special area of conservation sites, the qualifying criteria for the scheme are that:

- The applicant must have had a legal interest (ownership or a turbary right (right to cut turf)) in one of thee sites on 25 May 2010 and must have had the right to cut and remove turf from the property on that date;

- The applicant must have been cutting turf on the land in question during the five year period up to 31 December 2011;

- The turf resource on the site has not been exhausted; and

- No turf cutting or associated activity is ongoing on the property.

I am advised that my Department has contacted the applicant and is examining the application in view of the qualifying criteria for the scheme.