Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 21: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the REP scheme 4 is to be open to applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8812/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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REPS 4 will form part of the new Rural Development Programme for the period from 2007 to 2013. The Programme was sent to the European Commission in late December 2006 and has to go through a formal approval process. I cannot be definite as to how long this process will take but I continue to pursue early approval. My officials are in ongoing contact about it with their counterparts in the Commission services.