Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 399: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if an application for a person (details supplied) in County Cork for the transfer of a milk quota will be expedited and approved. [3776/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person in question, who is a participant in the scheme of early retirement from farming, applied under regulation 11(1) of the EC (Milk Quota) Regulations 2000, as amended, for ministerial approval to seek a new lessee of land and milk quota. Approval was granted and a letter to that effect issued to the applicant on 28 January 2005. The approval is subject to the new lessee being approved as an eligible transferee in the early retirement scheme. The person in question was sent a letter, dated 14 January 2005, requesting the documentation required to process her application for the installation of the new lessee in accordance with the requirements of the early retirement scheme. The application can be processed when the documentation has been received.