Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 385: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of farmers who participated in the early farm retirement scheme each year from 1994 to date in 2006; the amount granted in relation to this scheme for the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40279/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Payments are currently being made under two Schemes of Early Retirement from Farming. Details of the number of participants who entered the 1994 Scheme of Early Retirement from Farming, which closed to new applicants on 31 December 1999 and the current Early Retirement Scheme which was introduced in November 2000 and is due to close at the end of this year, are set out in the following table for each of the years 1994 to 2006. The amount paid in each year is also shown.