Written answers
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Department of Agriculture and Food
Farm Waste Management
5:00 pm
Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 267: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will extend the deadline for applications under the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31846/08]
Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The deadline of 31 December 2008 for completion of work by farmers under the revised Farm Waste Management Scheme introduced by my Department in March 2006 is a condition of the EU state aid approval for the Scheme. I have raised this issue with the European Commission as recently as July and the Commission has since reaffirmed that it expects Ireland to respect this deadline strictly.
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