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20 Mr. M. Moynihan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not received any headage payment in 1999; and the reason he did not receive headage payment in the years 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1998. [27428/99]
No area aid application was received from the person named for 1994, 1995 or 1996 and consequently no area aid related payments, including headage, can be made.
21 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development the number of payments of headage and premia currently outstanding to farmers in County Mayo for both cattle and sheep; and the number of farmers who have been paid their full entitlements. [27447/99]
The following table sets out the position on applications under the various 1999 cattle and sheep headage and premium schemes for County Mayo:
|
Scheme |
No. of Applications |
No. Paid |
No. Outstanding |
|
Cattle Headage/Beef Cow |
11,211 |
10,101 |
1,110 |
|
Sheep Headage |
4,218 |
3,429 |
789 |
|
Ewe Premium |
4,950 |
4,836 |
114 |
|
Special Beef Premium |
11,983 |
9,296 |
*2,687 |
|
Suckler Cow Premium |
8,826 |
7,955 |
871 |
|
Slaughter Premium |
1,068 |
1,047 |
21 |
22 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive 1999 cattle headage. [27448/99]
The person named included commonage in his 1999 area aid application, but did not provide proof of his entitlement to claim this commonage. He has been written to in this regard. No payments can issue until this matter is resolved.
23 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive 1999 cattle and sheep headage in view of the fact that he did submit evidence of the certificate of postage of his area aid application for 1999. [27449/99]
As stated in my reply to Parliamentary Question No.156 of 7 December 1999, no area aid application was received from the person named for 1999 nor was any certificate of posting of his 1999 application received. Consequently no cattle or sheep headage payments can be made.
24 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not received cattle and sheep headage and premia in view of the fact that he was promised payment some time ago. [27450/99]
As stated in my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 23 November 1999, the person named did not initially supply the information necessary to process his 1999 area aid application. Therefore the area aid unit issued maps to the herdowner to enable him to outline the boundaries of the land claimed by him.
These maps have now been entered on to the Department's electronic database but this process has shown that one of the parcels claimed by the person named overlaps with a parcel of land claimed by another applicant. The herdowner has again been contacted in this regard and a reply is awaited.
25 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive 1999 cattle headage. [27451/99]
26 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive 1999 headage and premia payments. [27452/99]
The 1999 area aid application form for the person named has now been fully processed.
The person named was paid her 1999 suckler cow premium advance payment of £239.65 on 1 November 1999 and her entitlement under the 1999 cattle headage scheme will issue shortly.
27 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive 1999 cattle headage and premia in view of the fact that he has submitted a certificate of postage to prove his submission of an area aid application for 1999. [27453/99]
The application under the 1999 cattle headage scheme of the person named was received in the district local office of the Department on 9 July 1999. The closing date for receipt of applications was 31 May 1999, extended to 4 June 1999, with a late application period up to and including 29 June 1999. My Department wrote to him on 16 July advising that as his 1999 cattle headage application was received after the 29 June no grants would issue under this scheme. The solicitors of the person named wrote to my Department on 2 December 1999 on this matter and enclosed a certified copy of a certificate of posting showing the posting date as the 28 May 1999. The person named was advised by my Department by letter of 14 December that the certificate of posting is acceptable and he was requested to now submit his herd register, cattle identity cards and sales dockets, if any, in respect of all animals listed on his application. On receipt of this information his application can be processed for payment.
No applications were received from the person named under the premia schemes.
28 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive 1999 cattle and sheep headage and premia particularly as he has submitted a certificate of postage as evidence of his area aid submission. [27454/99]
The person named included two commonages in his 1999 area aid application, but only provided proof of his entitlement to claim on one of these commonage. He has been written to in connection with the commonage claim for which there is no proof. No payments can issue until this matter is resolved
29 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive cattle and sheep headage premia in view of the fact that he has submitted proof of his entitlement to the commonage holding. [27455/99]
As stated in my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 23 November 1999, the person named included commonage in his 1999 area aid application, but did not provide sufficient proof of his entitlement to claim all of this commonage He has been contacted in this regard, and no reply has been received to date. No payments can issue until all outstanding issues have been resolved.
30 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive 1999 cattle and sheep headage and premia; and when his REP scheme payment will issue in view of the fact the delays have caused distress and financial hardship. [27456/99]
As stated in my reply of 16 November 1999 to Parliamentary Question No. 164, a representative of the person named arranged a meeting with the area aid unit in order to discuss other outstanding matters relating to this application. This meeting has now taken place, and the representative of the person named was supplied with a map of a parcel which is sub ject to an overclaim. Neither the herdowner nor his representative have made further contact with the area aid unit, so his application has now been finalised. The person named applied for a total of 40.89 hectares on his 1999 area aid application form. Following processing of his application an area of 37.66 hectares was determined. This represents a difference of 3.23 hectares or 8.58% between the area claimed and that determined.
Under Article 9 of EU Regulation 3887/92, no penalty is applied when the difference is less than 3%, the penalty is based on double the difference when it is between 3% and 20% and when the difference is over 20%, a 100% penalty must be applied.
Therefore in this case a penalty of 6.46 hectares has to be applied leaving the area determined for payment at 31.20 hectares. Any payments due will issue as soon as possible.
Under the 1999 ewe premium scheme the person named was paid the first instalment of £665.89 on 11 June 1999 and the second instalment of £340.94 on 20 October 1999. He was paid his full entitlement of £640.00 under the 1999 sheep headage scheme on 17 November 1999.
He submitted two applications under the 1999 special beef premium ten months scheme and was paid the 60% advances of £102.73 and £154.09 in respect of each of these applications on the 16 November 1999.
He was paid £1,333.50 under the 1999 cattle headage scheme on 17 November 1999. This grant was calculated on the basis of 22.02 forage hectares. A supplementary payment will now issue to him on the basis of the revised forage area of 31.20 hectares.
The person named was paid £2,511.55 under the 1999 suckler cow premium scheme on 18 November 1999. A supplementary payment will now issue to him which, when combined with the amount already paid, will represent the 60% advance under this scheme.
An application for payment under the REPS scheme was received on 26 November 1999 and is currently receiving attention.
31 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive 1999 cattle and sheep headage. [27457/99]
The person named included a number of different commonages in his 1999 area aid application, but did not provide proof of his entitlement to claim any of these commonages. The person named has been written to in this regard. No payments can issue until this matter is resolved.
32 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive 1999 cattle and sheep headage in view of the fact that the herd number has been transferred into his name for several weeks. [27458/99]
Payment of the 1999 cattle headage grant was made to the person named on 15 December 1999.
The person named was not an applicant under the 1999 sheep headage scheme. However, he was an applicant under the 1999 ewe premium scheme and payment of the first and second advance was made on 9 December 1999.
