Mary Wallace
Question:176 Miss M. Wallace asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry if he will review the application of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan for Leader aid who qualifies on all accounts for a grant of £8,000 but who was advised in December 1995 by the Cavan/Monaghan Rural Development Co-operative Society Limited that his grant has not been approved due to the fact that work was substantially completed and that a project can be considered for aid only where the work involved commences after the formal application is acknowledged; if he will accept that the applicant endeavoured to apply for Leader in April 1995 and was referred to the Cavan county enterprise board who were acting in the absence of Leader and this application was formally submitted to Cavan county enterprise board on 20 April 1996 and that this should have been taken as his date of application due to the fact that the county enterprise board subsequently referred him back to Leader and, on 17 October 1995, the Cavan/Monaghan Rural Development Co-operative Society acknowledged that it had received the information from the Cavan county enterprise board and that no work had commenced when the Cavan county enterprise board official inspected the site following the formal application of 20 April 1995; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14926/96]
