Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 217: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if additional milk quota will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the special arrangement for hardship cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4573/04]

Joe Walsh (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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Allocations of milk quota from the national reserve are granted on the basis of recommendations from the milk quota appeals tribunal. The tribunal is a body established to consider and advise on applications for additional quota from individual producers who have suffered severe hardship in the context of the milk quota system.

The person named submitted an application for additional quota on the grounds of hardship in the current 2003/04 milk quota year. As the application form was not fully completed it was returned to the applicant. When the completed form has been returned to my Department it will be considered by the tribunal and a decision will be taken in this case.

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 218: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if additional milk quota will be allocated to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the special provision for hardship cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4574/04]

Joe Walsh (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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Allocations of milk quota from the national reserve are granted on the basis of recommendations from the milk quota appeals tribunal. The tribunal is a body established to consider and advise on applications for additional quota from individual producers who have suffered severe hardship in the context of the milk quota system.

The person named last applied to the tribunal in the 2001/2002 milk quota year but there is no record of him having applied in the current 2003/04 quota year. While the deadline for application in respect of the current quota year has passed an application may be made for the 2004/05 quota year when the application forms become available in the autumn.