Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 May 2016
1064. Deputy Bobby Aylward asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to expedite payment of entitlements to a person (details supplied) under the basic payment scheme, given that the person has been waiting an exorbitant amount of time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10426/16]
View answerThe person named established 37.04 Entitlement Allocation Rights under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme with a total value of these entitlements is €10,192.68 including the Greening payment. The person named formed a registered farm partnership with another party, and submitted an application on behalf of the farm partnership under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme.
A farm partnership is a legal business arrangement where two or more individuals come together combining their respective resources to achieve mutual benefits. Members of a farm partnership who own individual sets of entitlements receive a combined payment. It is therefore incumbent that my Department identifies and ensures that entitlements held are licensed for use in the partnership. Consequently, should the partnership dissolve the entitlements return to the relevant owners.
Processing of this application has recently been finalised, and payment will issue to the nominated bank account of the Farm Partnership shortly.
The person named also submitted an application under the 2015 Young Farmers Scheme to my Department. The application is outstanding as additional documentation is required. My Department wrote to the person named requesting the submission of that additional documentation as part of the administrative checks carried out under the schemes. Once the relevant documents have been received the application will be finalised, with a view to payment issuing as soon as possible thereafter.
