Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 1001: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to assist the small milk suppliers who got out of milk and have no entitlements to the single farm payment scheme; if assistance will be given particularly as only a small number of people are in this situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1563/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Category C of the single payment scheme national reserve 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/or arable aid schemes would have been payable during the reference period 2000 to 2002. More than 3,000 applications in this category have been received by my Department.