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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 10 Feb 1981

Vol. 326 No. 7

Written Answers. - Grants Payment.

152.

asked the Minister for Agriculture when a grant will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny for a silage lay-out which was passed and inspected in September 1980.

As the applicant is a development farmer payment could not be made until the necessary evidence of keeping farm accounts was furnished. This evidence did not come to hand until the end of the year. The grant has now been paid.

153.

asked the Minister for Agriculture when a grant for farm buildings and a concrete yard will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny.

No applicant of the name mentioned is due a grant under the farm moderation scheme.

154.

asked the Minister for Agriculture the reason for the delay in the payment of a farm modernisation grant, which has been passed for payment, to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and when payment can be expected.

The work in this case was only certified recently. The grant will be paid when normal processing procedures have been completed.

155.

asked the Minister for Agriculture when a grant under the farm modernisation scheme will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; when the works were approved; if they have been inspected and, if, so, when; and the reason, if any, for the delay in the payment of the grant.

The scheme of work in this case was approved in September 1978. Normal inspections were carried out as the work progressed — the last in November 1980. Notification has not yet been received in the local farm development service office that the work has been completed.

156.

asked the Minister for Agriculture the reason for the delay in the payment of a grant for 12 suckling calves to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and when he can expect payment of the grant.

Payments under the EEC scheme of premiums for maintaining suckler cows do not fall to be made until the end of May.

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