I propose to take Questions Nos. 644, 659 and 660 together.
To date 131,806 farmers have received notification of their provisional single farm payment entitlement. This leaves a balance of 9,611 farmers who have not yet been notified. These farmers are awaiting processing of applications under various measures of the single payment regulations such as force majeure, new entrant and inheritance cases. The break down per county of these 9,611 cases is as follows:
|
Number
|
Carlow
|
159
|
Cavan
|
289
|
Clare
|
397
|
Cork
|
1,063
|
Donegal
|
444
|
Dublin
|
54
|
Galway
|
854
|
Kerry
|
614
|
Kildare
|
191
|
Kilkenny
|
306
|
Laois
|
308
|
Leitrim
|
157
|
Limerick
|
459
|
Longford
|
137
|
Louth
|
142
|
Mayo
|
899
|
Meath
|
374
|
Monaghan
|
310
|
Offaly
|
283
|
Roscommon
|
349
|
Sligo
|
220
|
Tipperary
|
715
|
Waterford
|
235
|
Westmeath
|
184
|
Wexford
|
316
|
Wicklow
|
152
|
A total of 1,545 farmers who submitted applications in the first application period are awaiting a decision on their force majeure application. The large majority of these relate to cases where my Department sought additional information in support of the application. In excess of 2,500 applications received in the second application period for force majeure are being processed. However, the applicants in the second application period have generally already been notified of their provisional single payment entitlements.
All farmers who have not yet received a notification of their single payment entitlements will have a period of four weeks, following receipt of that notification, to request a review of their entitlements and will have a right to appeal to the independent single payment appeals committee if dissatisfied with the outcome of that review. Farmers who wished to submit an application under the force majeure or exceptional circumstances measure or to apply to the single payment national reserve could have done so on the basis of being eligible under one or more of the categories specified. It was therefore not necessary to have received a notification of entitlements prior to submitting an application under either of these measures.