Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 204: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she proposes to remove the off-farm income limit for transferees in the revised farm retirement scheme which she will announce shortly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11173/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The current early retirement scheme sets an off-farm income limit for transferees. In the report on the scheme which it published last year, the Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food recommended that this limit be removed. I am still considering this recommendation, along with a number of others that the committee made, and I hope to announce my decision in due course.