Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 435: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the application by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick for the national milk quota reserve category C. [20734/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person named submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the single payment scheme national reserve under category C. Category C caters for farmers who, between 1 January 2000 and 19 October 2003, sold their milk quota into the milk quota restructuring scheme and converted their enterprise to a farming sector for which a direct payment under the livestock premia and-or arable aid schemes would have been payable during the reference period 2000-2002. The application under this category is being processed at present and he will be notified of his eligibility or otherwise as soon as all applications received are processed.

In excess of 17,500 applications have been received under the national reserve at the Department's office in Castlebar. In view of the applications received and the documentation submitted, it will be some time before a decision is reached on whether the person named is entitled to an allocation from the reserve.