Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 18 December 2014
199. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason disadvantaged area scheme and single payment scheme payments have not been made in respect of a person (details supplied), when payments will issue and if penalties will be applied to their payments. [48817/14]
View answerAn application under the 2014 Single Payment/Disadvantaged Area Scheme was received in my Department from the person named on 14 May 2014. He declared a number of commonage parcels on this application one of which, Parcel G 11306037 was declared for the first time in 2014. Following examination of the commonage evidence submitted for this parcel, it was rejected from his application on the basis that it did not meet the Terms and Conditions of the Schemes which state, inter alia, that any lands declared must be validly ‘owned, rented or leased’ by an applicant.
The area claimed in Parcel G 11306037 had, under the Terms and Conditions of the Single payment scheme, to be excluded from the calculation of eligible land for the person named thereby causing an over-claim of between 3% and 20%. This resulted in his Single Payment, which issued on 16th December being based on a reduced eligible area.
Since the over-claim is in excess 50% of his declared area under the 2014 Disadvantaged Area Scheme, no payment is due to the person named under this Scheme.
My Department wrote to the person named on 17 November 2014 informing him of this decision and of his right to appeal. To date, no such appeal has been received in my Department. In the event that the person named wishes to seek a review of the decision he should do so in writing clearly setting out the grounds of the appeal.
