Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 266: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person in County Limerick who was granted funding under the current farm waste management scheme for slatted tanks and a cubicle shed and who has all underground work completed is eligible for funding under the new scheme to be introduced from January 2006 if no further work was undertaken. [29637/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Farmers who have been approved to carry out works under the current farm waste management scheme and who have not commenced such works may apply to the Department for the cancellation of such approvals and make a renewed application under the revised farm waste management scheme when it is introduced. However, such work must not commence until approval has been issued by my Department under the revised scheme.

In addition, farmers may also apply for the cancellation of approvals under the existing scheme in regard to distinct and separate units of work which have not yet commenced and which form part of an approval comprising two or more units of work, and submit new applications under the revised scheme, when introduced, in respect of such items. For this purpose, underground tanks and cubicle sheds are considered to be separate units of work. However, cancellations shall not be permitted in respect of any units of work which have already commenced under the existing scheme.