Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I simply ask how many have not been paid. I have serious anxieties regarding those young people encouraged by their parents, uncles or aunts to stay in farming through being granted use of the land by deed, transfer or partnership. There seems to have been a dreadful breakdown in the operation of the scheme. In one recent case, a Teagasc adviser had never heard of the forms that had to be filled in and had to have them sent to him.

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