Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 30 June 2009
448 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a REP scheme 4 payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if not, the reason therefore; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26238/09]
View answerThe REPS 4 agri-environmental plan submitted by the person named was lodged in my Department on 5 September 2008 and, consequently, his contract could not start before 1 January 2009.
Under EU Regulations, payment on individual REPS 4 applications for 2009 cannot be made until completion of administrative and area checks on all applications received up to the closing date of 15 May 2009. At that stage, 75% of the payment to each individual participant can be released, with the balance being payable when the last of the on-farm inspections for the year has taken place. The processing of application is under way and I expect that payment of the first instalment will take place in the autumn.
449 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a full balance of unpaid REP scheme and single farm payments for the period up to and including 2008 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; if not, the reason therefore; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26239/09]
View answerI am satisfied that the person named has received all payments to date to which entitlement has been established definitively under REPS and the Single Payment Scheme.
450 Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a full balance of unpaid REP scheme and single farm payments for the period up to and including 2008 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26240/09]
View answerMy Department has made no reduction in REPS payments to the person named. He submitted an amended REPS plan earlier this month following a Single Payment Scheme area inspection. The implications for his REPS payments, if any, will be examined by my officials when they process his annual application for payment, which is now due.
The Single Payment Scheme for the person named was reduced as a result of an area eligibility inspection carried out on a commonage land parcel in the townland of Lahardan Lower, as part of the Single Payment Scheme commonage review process undertaken by my Department. Further processing is required for this commonage with regard to folio evidence and when this is completed, the person named will be contacted regarding the outcome of the review.
