Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 December 2014
313. Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of headage and single farm payments will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48047/14]
View answerThe person named submitted a 2014 Single Farm Payment/Disadvantaged Areas scheme application on 29 April 2014. EU Regulations governing the administration of these schemes require that full and comprehensive administrative checks, including in some cases Remote Sensing (i.e. satellite) inspections, be completed before any payments issue. The application of the person named was selected for a Remote Sensing eligibility inspection. The inspection identified discrepancies between the areas declared and the area found resulting in an over-declaration in area of between 3% and 20% in respect of the Single Payment Scheme. Under the Terms and Conditions of this scheme this results in the 2014 payment being based on the found area having been reduced by double the difference between the area found and the area declared.
Payment due, on the basis set out above, under the 2014 Single Payment Scheme will issue shortly to the nominated bank account of the person named.
The results of the inspection as it applies to the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas’ Scheme are currently being finalised with the intention of issuing any payment due as soon as possible.
The person named will be notified of the outcome of the inspection shortly and of the right to seek a review of this decision. In the event that the person named is dissatisfied with the outcome of any such review, the decision can be appealed to the independent Agriculture Appeals Office, within 3 months.
