Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 107: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to implement the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food's report on the early retirement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12053/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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I am still considering certain aspects of the joint committee's report on the early retirement scheme and I expect to be in a position to make announcements in due course. A number of the committee's recommendations are, as I explained in my detailed response to the report, precluded by the EU regulations under which the current scheme and its predecessor are operated.