Written answers

Wednesday, 4 May 2005

Department of Agriculture and Food

Farm Retirement Scheme

9:00 pm

Photo of Tom HayesTom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 360: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of persons who have availed of the farm retirement scheme each year since its inception. [14561/05]

Photo of Mary CoughlanMary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Details of the number of participants who joined 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, in each year since their inception, are set out in the following table.

Year ended Number
31 December 1994 1,962
31 December 1995 2,198
31 December 1996 1,795
31 December 1997 1,796
31 December 1998 1,305
31 December 1999 1,608
31 December 2000 41
31 December 2001 805
31 December 2002 809
31 December 2003 525
31 December 2004 275

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