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Single Payment Scheme Eligibility

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 April 2014

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Questions (511)

Frank Feighan

Question:

511. Deputy Frank Feighan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position in relation to a farmer who owns their own farm and is currently in receipt of the single farm payment and who now proposes to lease their spouse's farm before 14 May 2014 and take over the single farm payment, as their spouse has not been an active farmer in 2013 and is, therefore, not entitled to draw the single farm payment in their own right; and the status of these entitlements for the full-time farmer in 2015 in order to avoid any overall loss to both themselves and their spouse. [17264/14]

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As the wife of the person named did not receive a direct payment in 2013 she does not have an automatic allocation right and will not be allocated entitlements in 2015 under the Basic Payment Scheme.

When calculating the value of new Basic Payment Scheme entitlements in 2015, the value of Single Payment entitlements leased out in 2014 is attributed to the owner of the entitlements. However as the wife of the person named does not have an allocation right, she is not in a position to carry forward the value of entitlements she owns to the new scheme in 2015. There is a danger that the value of these entitlements will be lost unless they are transferred permanently to a person who holds an allocation right.

If the Single Payment entitlements are permanently transferred to the person named by the 15th May 2014, he will carry their value forward to the 2015 new scheme. However he will not be allocated new Basic Payment Scheme entitlements on his wife's additional land in 2015 as he will be limited to the lower amount of land declared in 2013 or 2015.

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