Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 450: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo can retain their milk quota in view of their particular circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7113/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Milk Quota Regulations, if a producer makes no deliveries for two consecutive years, the quota is liable to be added to the National Reserve at the start of the third year. Where a person's quota is added to the Reserve, it is no longer available to that person. Milk quota may be restored to the former quota holder, or their successor, on application, if they resume production within two years.

A person may sell their quota into the Milk Quota Trading Scheme, but their successor will not have an entitlement to buy it back at some future date. However, if a successor qualified as a new entrant, they could apply to buy quota from the Trading Scheme in the normal way.