Written answers
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Organic Farming
Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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190. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2023 organic farming scheme payment will issue to a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55672/23]
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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All applicants in the Organic Farming Scheme are subject to annual validation checks to ensure the correct payments are made. These checks have identified some validation errors on the BISS application submitted by the person named. Once these have been rectified, their Organic Farming Scheme payment can proceed.
Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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191. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2023 organic farming scheme payment will issue to a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55673/23]
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has no record of an Organic Farming Scheme application for the person named, nor of an organic licence or organic land claimed on their 2023 BISS application. However, the Organic Farming Scheme is currently open for new applications until the 15th of December 2023 and they may apply if they so wish.
Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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192. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if lands leased by a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied) will be linked with his herd number for their organic scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55676/23]
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The BISS application of the person named, submitted under the reference number supplied, has now been linked to their partnership number. Pre-payment validation checks are currently being carried out on their Organic Farming Scheme application.
2023 Organic Farming Scheme payments commenced on the 8December, and payments will continue to be processed as the validation checks are completed.
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