Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 1 June 2017
206. Deputy Kevin O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 557 of 23 May 2017, the reason a penalty is being applied in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork when this penalty of 3% was deducted from the person's payment in 2016. [26439/17]
View answerUnder the Integrated Control System, any penalty identified in a particular scheme must be cross reported. The penalty concerned must then be applied to all other Direct Payment Schemes and Rural Development Programme Measures for which the participant is in receipt of payment.
In this instance, the applicant received a penalty following a full cross compliance inspection. While this penalty was deducted from the other schemes for which he is a participant, it has not yet been deducted from his Organic Farming Scheme payment. The Organic Farming Scheme payment, less the appropriate penalty will issue to the above named in the very near future.
