Frank Feighan
Question:105. Deputy Frank Feighan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive payments for 2014 under the agri-environment options scheme. [35171/15]
View answerThursday, 8 October 2015
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My Department is currently examining approximately 400 cases that submitted invoices from one particular company to verify and support claims under the non-productive capital investment action of AEOS. It is known that in some cases the invoices submitted were for greater amounts than actually paid by the participants. Funding provided under the scheme comes partly from the EU and partly from the National Exchequer. There is a requirement and obligation to ensure that the expenditure claimed by scheme participants reflects the reality of what took place. For that reason my Department wrote to participants requesting alternative proof that the amounts claimed were in fact the amounts paid.
The person named above was written to on 15 June 2015 regarding the non-productive capital investment claim that they had submitted. This letter requested the submission of alternative verifiable proof to support one of the invoices that was included in each of the claims. A reply to this letter was received on 23 June 2015. My Department officials are now examining this case in light of the reply received and a decision will issue to the persons-named shortly.