Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 1304: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will seek to have the eligibility criteria for the young farmer installation aid scheme relaxed in order that the large number of young farmers now excluded on grounds of farm income being less than 20 income units can qualify for support under the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43687/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The new Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 provides, in the case of the proposed Young Farmer Installation Scheme, that the system of income units be replaced by a requirement that young farmers must fulfil, inter alia, certain land transfer conditions in order to benefit from the increased grant of €15,000. The new Scheme will be introduced as soon as EU approval is received for the Programme.