Bernard Allen
Ceist:80 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a farm development grant will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and the reason for the delay in payment in this case.
Written Answers. - Grant Payments.
Notification of the completion of the work in this case was not received until the end of April. The grant will be paid shortly.
Ned O'Keeffe
Ceist:81 Mr. E. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when payment of a farm development grant will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
This grant will be paid as soon as possible.
Dinny McGinley
Ceist:82 Mr. McGinley asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a cattle headage premium will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal.
This applicant has already been paid his 1989 cattle and equines headage and calf premium schemes grant.
A pay order for grants due to him under the 1989 suckler cow scheme will issue shortly in lieu of the original pay order which was lost.
Dinny McGinley
Ceist:83 Mr. McGinley asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a cow suckler grant will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal.
A pay order for grants due to this applicant under the 1989 suckler cow scheme will issue shortly in lieu of the original pay order which was lost.
Dinny McGinley
Ceist:84 Mr. McGinley asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a suckler cow premium will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal.
A pay order for grants due to this applicant under the 1989 suckler cow scheme will issue shortly in lieu of the original pay order which was lost.
Frank Crowley
Ceist:85 Mr. Crowley asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a suckler cow grant and the remainder of a headage grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
This applicant is not eligible for grants under the 1989 suckler cow premium scheme as he was engaged in commercial milk production. His 1989 calf premium scheme payment is being processed and will issue shortly.
He has been overpaid a total of £784.20 under the 1989 cattle and equines headage scheme and this amount will be recovered from grants which it is expected will be due to him for 1990.
Michael Creed
Ceist:86 Mr. Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the total cost of the cattle headage grant scheme to the Exchequer for the past year, the amount of money received from the European Commission in relation to these payments; when it was received; the percentage of payments made in each month; and if all payments have yet been made.
I take it that the Deputy is referring to the 1989 cattle and equines headage scheme in more severely handicapped areas and the beef cow and equines headage scheme in less severely handicapped areas.
The total cost to the Exchequer to date of these two schemes is £48.02 million. No money has yet been received from the European Commission in relation to these schemes but it is expected that 65 per cent of the £29.84 million spent on them by the end of 1989 will be received shortly. The balance of the EC contribution to the cost of the schemes will be received at a later date.
Of the total paid to date approximately 62.1 per cent was paid in December, 0.2 per cent in January, 12 per cent in February, 14.2 per cent in March, 5 per cent in April, 5.8 per cent in May and 0.7 per cent in June. It is estimated that 97 per cent to 98 per cent of all payments under these two schemes have now been made.