Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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906. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4151/21]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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An application for the 2020 Areas of Natural Constraints scheme was received from the person named on 31^stMarch 2020. Any payments due in respect of scheme applications made prior to the applicant’s death are now payable to his estate. The Department’s Inheritance Enquiry Unit facilitates payments to the estate of deceased persons, once the Department has received all the necessary documentation to enable payment to issue.

A letter issued from the Inheritance Unit to the estate of the deceased on 6th October 2020 outlining the necessary requirements and documentation that must be provided. On 27th October 2020, the Department was advised that the necessary documentation would be submitted in due course.

To date, the Department has not received any further correspondence in relation to this matter and are therefore not in a position to enable payment to issue. An official has contacted the deceased’s widow to discuss the outstanding requirements to help resolve the matter. Once all necessary requirements have been met, my Department will process the payment at the earliest possible opportunity.