Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 8 December 2016
228. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of entitlements a person (details supplied) had submitted on their basic payment application in 2016; and the number of entitlements the person was paid for. [39363/16]
View answerThe person named submitted a 2016 Basic Payment Scheme application on 12th May 2016 to my Department. The person named held 18.46 entitlements under the Basic Payment Scheme. In order to draw down payment a farmer must declare one eligible hectare for each entitlement owned. The person named submitted 17.55 hectares of eligible land on the 2016 Basic Payment Scheme application and as a result payment issued on 17.55 entitlements.
