Michael P. Kitt
Ceist:96 Mr. M. Kitt asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a ewe premium will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Galway.
Written Answers. - Grant Payments.
An advance payment of £589 under the 1989 ewe premium scheme has already been made to the person named and the balance together with the 1990 sheep headage and advances of the 1990 ewe premium will be paid later on in the year after inspections are completed under these schemes.
John Browne
Ceist:97 Mr. Browne (Wexford) asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a beef cow grant and a calf subsidy will be a paid to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford.
This applicant has already been paid his 1989 calf premium and suckler cow premium schemes grants. His 1989 special beef premium scheme payment is being processed and will issue shortly.
He is not eligible for grants under the 1989 beef cow and equines headage scheme as his lands are not situated in a Less Severely Handicapped Area.
John Browne
Ceist:98 Mr. Browne (Wexford) asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a beef cow grant and a calf subsidy will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford.
Payments to this applicant under the 1989 calf premium and special beef premium schemes have been made already.
Michael P. Kitt
Ceist:99 Mr. M. Kitt asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will ensure that smallholders, who have arrangements made to repay arrears of rent to the Land Commission, will not have a stay put on their headage grants.
I can assure the Deputy that, in the circumstances outlined, headage grants will not be offset against arrears of Land Commission annuities where agreed arrangements are adhered to by the farmers involved.
John O'Leary
Ceist:100 Mr. O'Leary asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a sheep premium grant and all outstanding sheep headage and premium grants will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
The person named was asked twice to forward legal documents showing that he owned the lands on which sheep presented for 1988 ewe premium and 1989 sheep headage were grazing so that my Department could be certain he was the person maintaining those sheep. If he does so, the balance of 1988 ewe premium and the 1990 sheep headage grants claimed can be paid to him.
Payment of 1989 and 1990 ewe premium and 1990 sheep headage (due to be made later in 1990 to all applicants) will not possible in this case either until the legal documents requested are supplied.
Madeleine Taylor-Quinn
Ceist:101 Mrs. Taylor-Quinn asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive payment of a drainage grant.
This grant will be paid shortly.
Austin Deasy
Ceist:102 Mr. Deasy asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason for the delay in payment of a headage payment to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; the date application was received, the date of inspection and when payment of same will issue.
Payments have already been made to this applicant under the 1989 calf and special beef premium schemes. Payment under the 1989 cattle and equines headage scheme is being processed and will issue shortly.
The applications were received in the local office of my Department on 12 July 1989 and inspection of the applicant's herd took place on 4 August 1989. There were delays in these and other payments because of the late issue of applications following a High Court case last year and a policy of non-co-operation by some unions at the end of the year. Payments are now back to normal, however.