Written answers
Wednesday, 4 May 2005
Department of Agriculture and Food
Farm Retirement Scheme
9:00 pm
Tom 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]
Mary 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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