Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 341: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when an allocation from the national reserve will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38749/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The person named submitted an application under category C of the single payment scheme national reserve which 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 livestock premia and/or arable aid schemes would have been payable during the reference period 2000 to 2002.

The position is that over 23,000 applications for an allocation of entitlements from the national reserve were received when account is taken of farmers who applied under more than one category. Processing of these applications is continuing and the intention is to make allocations to successful applicants early in 2006. The Department will be in touch with individual applicants as soon as their applications are fully processed.