Jackie Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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Question 403: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will review the farm retirement scheme; if all joint management applications involving married couples and partners will be treated as joint ownership applications (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26762/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department carried out a comprehensive expenditure review of the early retirement scheme in 2004. Under the scheme, joint management applications involving married couples and partners cannot be retrospectively treated as joint ownership applications unless new evidence emerges which shows that they were wrongly classified in the first place.