Written answers

Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Agriculture Schemes

Photo of Niall CollinsNiall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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749. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a detailed itemised statement of account will be provided for a farmer (details supplied) in County Clare in respect of the basic payment scheme, areas of natural constraint, organic farm scheme and GLAS since 2018 in view of the Agriculture Appeals Office decision on 12 April 2021. [47754/21]

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The person named appealed against a 2018 decision to reject their GLAS scheme application for that year. This decision also resulted in the GLAS payments for 2015 to 2017 being recouped as the person concerned had joined the Scheme in 2015. The appeal was partially successful, and the Appeals Office (AO) decision was issued on 12th April 2021. While the AO decision had a direct impact on GLAS scheme entitlements and payments it also had implications for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), the Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme (ANC) and the Organic Farm Scheme (OFS), due to the inter-related and inter-dependent terms and conditions and administration of the schemes.

The four scheme areas involved have been reviewing the payments and entitlements of the named person in the context of the AO decision. GLAS, ANC and BPS have completed these reviews and processed the payments due. Details of their findings and statements of account have been issued. A number of queries have been raised and these are being addressed including the processing of one final payment of €118.95 due under the BPS. The OFS review is currently being finalised and the outcome of this review will be communicated from the OFS scheme area to the named person as soon as it is completed.

When the OFS review process is completed, my Department will then issue a detailed itemised statement of account to the person named.

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