Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 November 2015
212. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick under the basic payment scheme and the disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41341/15]
View answerAn application under the 2015 Basic Payments (BPS)/Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC) Schemes was received from the person named on 19 May 2015. The application for the ANC Scheme is integrated into the BPS application form and in order to apply for the ANC Scheme, applicants are requested to tick a box on the BPS application form. The person named has declared land parcels containing areas of natural constraints in their BPS application but has not applied for the ANC scheme via the tick box. The Department contacted the person named in early August indicating that she/he had not applied for the ANC Scheme and requesting clarification on his intentions in relation to applying for the Scheme. To date no reply has been received.
My Department also received two applications from the person named for the 2015 Scheme Year relating to the transfer of entitlements. The first was a 2015 Transfer of Entitlement Allocation Right and Reference Value application by way of Inheritance from a deceased person to the person named. The second was a 2015 Private Contract Clause application from the person named to a third party. As the first application was an Inheritance application it was necessary for my Department to request testamentary documentation in support of this transfer. There are also some issues in relation to land parcels to be resolved before both applications can be processed. Officials from my Department have been in contact directly with the person named to resolve these issues in order to facilitate processing of the applications.
