Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 November 2015
300. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage penalty that applied to payments to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the resulting financial penalty that applied to payments under the basic payment scheme and under the areas of natural constraint scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40598/15]
View answerThe person named submitted a 2015 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS)/Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) Scheme application on 29 May, 2015.
This application was subject to land verification checks which were recently finalised. This process resulted in the claimed area of 11.12 hectares being reduced to 10.70 hectares.
Under the ANC scheme, as the difference between the area declared and the area found is more than 3%, the difference between the area declared and the area found is doubled and then deducted from the area found. As a result, the area payable for the ANC scheme is 9.86 hectares.
Under the BPS scheme the penalty situation is calculated differently, and in this case the determined area is 10.29 hectares. As the overclaimed area of 0.42 hectares in this case is 4% of the determined area of 10.29 hectares, a ‘double the difference’ penalty of 0.84 hectares has been applied.
