Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when single farm payments for 2013 relating to a herd (details supplied) will be issued to the beneficiaries of the probate taken out in May 2014; the reason these payments have not been made to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52591/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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An application was submitted under the 2013 Single Payment Scheme (SPS) by the legal representatives of the estate of the named on person 30 April 2013.  In January 2014, the legal representative of the above named estate died and the current owners of the herd number became the administrators of the estate.

Following the receipt of the necessary documentation, the entitlements were transferred to the current owners.  All payments due issued for the scheme years from 2014 for both SPS and the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS).  The 2013 payment did not issue at the time, primarily due to the difference between the date of the assignment of the herd number and the date of receipt of the SPS application. This matter has now been rectified. 

The  payment due for 2013 is expected to issue in the middle of January 2019.

An official from my Department has been in touch with the nominated contact for the herd number and has explained the circumstances of the case.