Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)

Those young people whose parents may have been transferring the farm had legitimate expectation, to use legal terminology. What about those cases where a young person enrols this year at agricultural college to do a green certificate or the case of a farmer with a lease signed but waiting for the Revenue to stamp it? Notwithstanding the Minister's budget day announcement of the suspension of the two schemes, will applicants who have legitimate expectation be accommodated? Has the Minister taken legal advice from the Attorney General on this matter?

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