Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 September 2011
440 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a payment under the disadvantaged grassland sheep scheme to a person (details supplied) in Roscommon will be based on 2005 numbers or depleted 2009 numbers; the reason for this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25949/11]
View answerApplicants under the Grassland Sheep Scheme are required, inter alia, to submit an appropriately completed Sheep Census to my Department, payment being confined to the breeding ewes held by the applicant. Furthermore, my Department is obliged to conduct field inspections in respect of a proportion of those applications made under the Scheme. In this particular case, the person named declared 145 breeding ewes on their Sheep Census and, having been selected for field inspection, the inspector confirmed this figure. Accordingly, the payment made to the person named was calculated on the basis of 145 breeding ewes. However, given the position regarding the restriction on the flock of the person named, as outlined, I have had arrangements made to have the case of the person named fully reviewed, following which the person named will be advised, in writing, of the outcome.
