Written answers

Tuesday, 20 March 2007

Department of Agriculture and Food

Rural Environment Protection Scheme

11:00 pm

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 738: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will reverse the decision not to reclassify spent mushroom compost as an industrial waste under REP scheme 4 rather than as it has always been classified with the chicken and pig manure due to the huge effects it will have on mushroom producers who will incur the significant additional expense of disposing of it when it should continue to be recycled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10344/07]

Photo of Mary CoughlanMary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Currently REPS farmers may import spent mushroom compost to be used to replace some or all of the chemical nitrogen requirements on the farm. I have no plans to change these arrangements in REPS 4.

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