Johnny Brady (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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Question 254: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food to outline progress under the farm waste management scheme. [9167/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Some 48,580 applications were received by my Department under the Farm Waste Management Scheme by the closing date of end-December 2006. To date, approx. 10,600 approvals have been issued to farmers to commence work and I am currently examining various proposals to speed up the approvals process under the Scheme. The Standard Costings used to calculate grants payable under the Scheme will be revised shortly and will be applied to all approvals issued by my Department to commence work under the Scheme since 1 January 2007.