Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 254: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of applicants who have opted for the farm retirement scheme in each of the past 10 years to date in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9356/07]

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 began to receive payments under the 1994 Scheme of Early Retirement from Farming, which closed to new applications on 31 December 1999 and the Early Retirement Scheme which was introduced in November 2000 and closed to new applications on 31 December 2006, are set out in a table for each of the years 1996 to 2007.