Written answers
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Grants
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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903. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) can expect grants outstanding since 2009 to issue; the status of these grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36921/20]
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The person named applied for payments under the Afforestation Grant and Premium Scheme in respect of 4.60ha of forestry. According to Property Registration Authority records, the person is the registered owner of only one parcel of the planted lands comprising of approx. 0.55ha. The remaining lands are registered in the ownership of other persons.
The Department has requested evidence of the person's ownership of all the lands but such evidence has not been submitted to date.
The Department is not in a position to release the payments until the person has submitted the necessary documentation confirming ownership of the lands.
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