Basic Payment Scheme Payments

Thursday, 1 December 2016

Questions (266)

Charlie McConalogue

Question:

266. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of farmers under the areas of natural constraints scheme and basic payments scheme that have yellow card cases that have been approved or declined by the Commission by county in tabular form; the total number of approved cases where 2016 payments have issued to date or will issue before the end of 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38263/16]

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Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

There are no cases under the Basic Payment Scheme that are awaiting processing due to the implementation of the new yellow card rules.

Payment under Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme commenced on the third week of September as agreed under the Farmers' Charter. To date over 87,000 beneficiaries have received in excess of €188m with payments continuing to issue as further cases are cleared.

Of those cases outstanding awaiting payment, a number have been identified as having an area over claim and therefore require the application of the new yellow card penalty regime Clarification on the implementation of this new penalty regime under ANC was only recently received from the Commission and my department is now making the necessary changes to the computerised payment procedure to allow further processing of these cases. These cases have been prioritised for clearance.

To date 1566 cases have been identified as having an ANC area over declaration. The county breakdown below of these cases is set out in the following table.

County	Yellow card cases
Carlow	17
Cavan	55
Clare	114
Cork	104
Donegal	117
Dublin	5
Galway	178
Kerry	104
Kildare	3
Kilkenny	28
Laois	20
Leitrim	58
Limerick	41
Longford	37
Louth	17
Mayo	231
Meath	15
Monaghan	60
Offaly	38
Roscommon	97
Sligo	40
Tipperary	75
Waterford	18
Westmeath	34
Wexford	28
Wicklow	32