Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 286: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if copies of documentation from her Department proving the payment of £17,050 to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 in May 1978 by way of compensation for reactors being removed from their herd in 1977 can be made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3381/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Notwithstanding the absence of precise documentary proof relating to this payment, my Department is satisfied that, based on other records dating from shortly after the payment was made, a payment of £17,050 issued to the person concerned in May 1978. Considering that the events to which the payment related occurred almost 30 years ago, it is not unreasonable for the Department to have disposed of such records.