Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This request came in yesterday. I am sure the Minister will schedule this. He is quite happy to meet the IFI in the normal course and he meets it frequently. He has been seeking to develop the outline of a crop loss compensation scheme, as the Deputies are aware. He is in discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to develop the terms of that. He will meet with the IFA ahead of any such final decisions. As the Deputies will be aware, he has already announced plans for agri-cash loan scheme and I understand 90 tillage farmers have availed of that. There is the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, and there has been a very significant take up of that. The Minister is responding-----

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