Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 625: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will consider the application for farm partnership for a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10418/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The milk quota regulations provide for the establishment of milk production partnerships subject to a number of conditions. In certain cases exemptions may be allowed by my Department where some conditions relating to milk production partnerships are not satisfied. Applications for the registration of milk production partnerships can be made to the Dairy Partnership Registration Office, Teagasc, Moorepark, County Cork.

It is understood that the named person manages two farms, one of which appears to be solely held by his father, while the other is owned by a third party. The named person's father is the producer in regard to the quota held on the family farm and it is he who must satisfy the partnership qualification conditions rather than the named person. From the information supplied, the quota holder does not satisfy the age condition for a partnership and the named person does not qualify under the milk production partnership rules as he is not an existing milk producer.