P. J. Sheehan
Ceist:107 Mr. Sheehan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have his area aid file cleared and his sheep headage grant paid. [23546/97]
Written Answers. - Grant Payments.
Payment of the 1997 sheep headage grant will be made to the person named shortly.
P. J. Sheehan
Ceist:109 Mr. Sheehan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have his area aid file cleared and payment of his cattle and sheep headage grant issued to him. [23548/97]
The area aid application of the person named is being processed and payments in respect of the 1997 sheep headage application of the person named will be made shortly.
No application has been received from the person named under the 1997 cattle headage scheme.
P. J. Sheehan
Ceist:110 Mr. Sheehan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have his area aid file cleared and payment of his cattle headage and suckler cow grants issued to him. [23549/97]
The person named was paid his 60 per cent advance of £252.14 on 20 November 1997 under the 1997 suckler cow scheme.
The person named will be paid his entitlement under the 1997 cattle headage scheme before Christmas.
P. J. Sheehan
Ceist:111 Mr. Sheehan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have her area aid file cleared and payment of her suckler cow and beef premium grants issued to her. [23550/97]
The person named has been paid £2,440 under the suckler cow scheme on 17 December 1997 and the payment of £2,100 under cattle headage is issuing today, 18 December 1997. Payment under the 1997 special beef premium scheme will issue before Christmas.
P. J. Sheehan
Ceist:112 Mr. Sheehan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have his area aid file cleared and payment of his sheep headage grant issued to him. [23551/97]
The area aid application of the person named is being processed and payments in respect of the 1997 sheep headage applications of the person named will be made shortly.
P. J. Sheehan
Ceist:113 Mr. Sheehan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of his reactor grant application for three reactor cattle which he sent to the factory in October 1997. [23552/97]
Reactor grants due to the person named will issue shortly.
P. J. Sheehan
Ceist:114 Mr. Sheehan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of his February 1997 ten month beef premium grant. [23553/97]
Special payment arrangements are necessary for applicants who do not submit area aid applications such as the person named. These arrangements will allow payments to such applicants to commence in March.
P. J. Sheehan
Ceist:115 Mr. Sheehan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of his farm modernisation grant which he applied for in 1997. [23554/97]
Payment of this grant cannot be considered until my Department's local office has been notified that the work in question has been completed to specification.
P. J. Sheehan
Ceist:116 Mr. Sheehan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have his area aid file cleared; and payment of his cattle headage grant issued to him. [23555/97]
The following payment has now issued to the person named: £1,863.33 in respect of 1997 cattle headage application.
P. J. Sheehan
Ceist:117 Mr. Sheehan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of his 1996 suckler cow grant. [23556/97]
The person named has already been paid the 60 per cent advance of his 1997 suckler cow premium grant amounting to £252.41 along with £458.60 in respect of 1997 cattle headage. He will be paid his 1996 suckler cow premium grant within the next three weeks.
P. J. Sheehan
Ceist:118 Mr. Sheehan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have his area aid file cleared and his cattle and sheep headage grants paid to him. [23557/97]
The person named will be paid his entitlement under the 1997 cattle headage scheme before Christmas.
No application has been received from the person named under the 1997 sheep headage scheme.
Liam Aylward
Ceist:119 Mr. Aylward asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will have reinvestigations made into the case for area aid application for each of the years from 1994 to 1996 for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [23576/97]
I have requested my Department to reexamine the application submitted by the person named under the arable aid scheme, for the years 1994 and 1995. The person named received payments totalling £1,495.69 in respect of his 1996 application.
Michael Creed
Ceist:120 Mr. Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be paid his installation aid grant. [23578/97]
This application cannot be processed until the applicant furnishes the copy folio recently requested of him by my Department.
Paul Bradford
Ceist:121 Mr. Bradford asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of a suckler cow premium grant. [23579/97]
My Department is not satisfied that one of the animals included by the person named on his 1997 suckler cow premium scheme application was in fact a cow at date of application.
The District Livestock Office has contacted the person named outlining the position to him. He has been asked to produce documentary evidence that the particular animal was a cow. His application will be processed further when the documenation required is received by my Department.
Paul Bradford
Ceist:122 Mr. Bradford asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of his suckler cow premium grant. [23581/97]
The person named has been paid the advance of his 1997 suckler cow premium grant today.
Paul Bradford
Ceist:123 Mr. Bradford asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment for six TB reactors. [23582/97]
Following receipt recently of essential documentation on behalf of the person named, TB reactor grants will be paid shortly.
Paul Bradford
Ceist:124 Mr. Bradford asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of his 16 suckler cow premium grants. [23583/97]
It was a condition of the 1997 schemes that applicants applying for premium on 15 livestock units and over under the EU premium schemes or who wished to claim any of the disadvantaged areas headage grants or to qualify for extensification premium were required to submit an area aid application. As my Department has no record of having received an area aid application from the person named his application for 19 cows under the 1997 suckler cow premium scheme cannot be processed further at present. However, when payment of balances commences under the 1997 scheme in early February, the person named will be paid on a total of 15 livestock units under the premium schemes.
Michael Creed
Ceist:125 Mr. Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be paid his ten and 22 month beef premium grants. [23584/97]
The following payments have now issued to the person named: £1,785.36 in respect of 1997 ten month special beef application; £1,623.06 in respect of 1997 22 month special beef application.