asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if his attention has been drawn to the fact that payments of disadvantaged area grants are not being made in the batch sequence which they had when finally processed by the local office; and if he will give the criteria used by his officers in the payment section to select those for payment.
Written Answers. - Grant Payments.
58.
As a general rule, computer payments are made within three weeks of receipt of batches in head office and in the sequence in which they are batched in local offices. In a situation where some 430,000 headage and premium payments are issued each year, it is inevitable that there will be exceptions to this rule but where they occur, they are due mainly to the necessity to resolve queries or discrepancies arising in the course of computer processing and occasionally to postal delays in transmission of batches.
59.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be paid a headage grant.
The person named will be paid his 1988 cattle and equines headage scheme grants, calf premium and special beef premium as soon as the batches which include his payments are processed.
60.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be paid a headage grant.
The person named will be paid his 1988 cattle and equines headage, calf premium and EC special beef premium schemes grants when the batches which include his payments have been processed.
He did not apply under the 1988 EC suckler cow premium scheme.
61.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a calf premium and a beef cow grant.
The person named will be paid his 1988 calf premium scheme grant when the batch which includes his payment is processed.
He was not an applicant in 1988 for grants on beef cows under the disadvantaged areas schemes or the EC suckler cow premium scheme.
He is not due any grants under the 1988 special beef premium scheme as he did not present any animals under this scheme at inspection.
62.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a calf subsidy, a cow subsidy and a beef premium subsidy will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Offaly.
The person named has been paid his 1988 suckler cow scheme grant already. He will be paid calf premium and special beef premium schemes grants when the batches which include his payments are processed.
He is not eligible for grants under the 1988 cattle and equines, beef cow or sheep headage schemes as his lands are outside the disadvantaged areas.
63.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be paid a headage grant.
The person named has been paid his 1988 cattle and equines headage scheme grant already. He will be paid his calf premium and special beef premium shortly.
64.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of a cattle headage grant.
The person named will be paid his 1988 cattle and equines headage schemes grant and calf premium as soon as the batches which include his payments are processed.
65.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of a cattle headage grant.
The person named will be paid his 1988 cattle and equines headage, calf premium and special beef premium schemes grants when the batches which include his payments are processed. He did not apply for grants under the 1988 suckler cow scheme.
66.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the provision which will be made in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford who is a milk supplier; and if he will take appropriate measures to alleviate hardship in cases such as this.
I have sought to assist such small scale producers within the limited degree of flexibility available to me under community regulations. I have laid down that priority in the distribution of flexi-milk, and in the restructuring and temporary leasing schemes, will be given to producers whose quotas do not exceed 30,000 gallons.
I understand that the person indicated has received additional allocations of quota for 1988-89 under both of these schemes and that he will also be receiving a further quantity from flexi-milk which will help to reduce or perhaps eliminate entirely his superlevy liability.
67.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be paid a cattle headage grant.
The person named has been paid his 1988 cattle and equines headage, calf premium and EC suckler cow premium schemes grants already.
He did not apply under the 1988 EC special beef premium scheme.
68.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and food when an installation premium grant payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; if he will expedite the matter; and when payment of same will issue.
There is no record of an application from the person mentioned under the scheme of installation aid for young farmers.