The person named commenced REPS 4 in 2008 and received full payments for the first two years of their contract.
In addition, 75% of the third year payment issued on 24th March 2011 for the amount of €1,539.00. An area based discrepancy was discovered following a cross check between the Single Payment Scheme application for 2010 of the person named and the REPS agri-environmental plan. This discrepancy has resulted in the imposition of a penalty and a delay in processing the final 25% payment under REPS 4 for 2010.
My Department is currently making arrangements to process outstanding payments to farmers of the 25% due in respect of 2010 in the cases where penalties were incurred and I expect payments to commence in these cases in October.