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GLAS Appeals

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 May 2016

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Ceisteanna (202)

Tom Neville

Ceist:

202. Deputy Tom Neville asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by persons (details supplied) under tranche 2 of the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; to contact the persons in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10884/16]

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Freagraí scríofa

An application for Tranche 2 of the GLAS Scheme was received in this case on the dedicated GLAS online system on the 13 December 2015. The unprecedented level of applications to the Scheme has meant that for GLAS 2, priority is being given to what are called Tier 1 and Tier 2 candidates, i.e. those who either manage key environmental assets like endangered birds, protected habitats or high-quality water courses, or who have committed to undertake particularly valuable environmental actions like growing feed-crops for wild birds, adopting low-impact tillage techniques or using low-emission slurry spreading methods.

The application for the persons named was ranked as a Tier 3 application and it was therefore not selected into the scheme. A letter issued to the persons named notifying them of this decision and giving the option of appeal to GLAS section. This decision was unsuccessfully appealed to GLAS Section and the persons named have been informed in writing of the outcome and of their right to appeal this further to the Agriculture Appeals Office (AAO), Kilminchy Court, Portlaoise. The AAO has advised that to date there is no record of an appeal having been made to that Office.

A third tranche of GLAS (GLAS 3) will open later this year and the persons named and any applicant who was unsuccessful in the second tranche will have the opportunity now to re-examine their proposed farm-plan, in consultation with their advisor, and see how it might be improved to increase their chance of selection under GLAS 3 and to submit a new application for GLAS 3 when the scheme is opened.

An official from my Department will contact the persons named.

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