Michael Ring
Question:172 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under her REP scheme application. [15034/99]
Written Answers. - Rural Environment Protection Scheme.
The person concerned submitted a REP scheme application on 17 July 1998. The application contained commonage land and could not be processed pending the availability of commonage framework plans and revised REPS specifications.
As it will take some time before framework plans will be available for all commonages, an interim national framework plan has been put in place to facilitate processing of REPS applications which include commonage land. In April last, revised agri-environmental specifications were published by my Department and a revised plan format was drawn up to accommodate applications with commonage land. The person named should submit a REPs plan in the revised format for consideration under the terms of the scheme.