Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 January 2014
553. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the circumstances under which 14 applications for installation aid were processed and paid in 2012; the number of applications still under active consideration by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2518/14]
View answerFourteen payments were made by my Department under the Young Farmers’ Installation Scheme or the preceding scheme, the Installation Aid Scheme, during the course of 2012. Of these, thirteen concerned payments in respect of applications to enter the schemes which were received prior to the date of suspension of the Young Farmers’ Installation Scheme on 14 October 2008.
In the remaining case, payment was made to an applicant who had successfully appealed to the Agriculture Appeals Office that my Department was required to process the file notwithstanding the fact that the application to enter the scheme had been received after the date of suspension referred to above. There have been two such successful appeals to the Agriculture Appeals Office and payment has now been made in both cases.
Two further payments were made under the above schemes in 2013 which also related to applications received prior to the date of suspension of 14 October 2008.
