The Department has been in contact with the persons concerned, to discuss this matter, and has examined the medical evidence provided. Unfortunately, the Department is not in a position to reinstate the entitlements to the named person for two reasons.
The medical evidence in support of the named person's late applications is not relevant because the herd number had been transferred to another person with effect from 7 March 2019.
The land which they asked to have included on the late BPS application, had it been accepted under force majeure, was rented out to a third party who included it on their BPS application. The same land cannot be claimed by two applicants in the same scheme year.