Written answers
Tuesday, 19 April 2005
Department of Agriculture and Food
Farm Retirement Scheme
9:00 pm
Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 368: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of applicants who entered the early farm retirement scheme each year from 1997 to 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11724/05]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Details of the number of participants who entered the 1994 scheme of early retirement from farming, which closed to new applicants on 31 December 1999, and the current scheme introduced in November 2000, are set out in the table below for each of the years 1997 to 2004.
Year ended | 1994-99 Scheme | 2000-2006 Scheme |
31 December 1997 | 1,796 | 0 |
31 December 1998 | 1,305 | 0 |
31 December 1999 | 1,608 | 0 |
31 December 2000 | 0 | 41 |
31 December 2001 | 0 | 805 |
31 December 2002 | 0 | 809 |
31 December 2003 | 0 | 525 |
31 December 2004 | 0 | 275 |
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