Written answers
Thursday, 1 November 2007
Department of Agriculture and Food
Departmental Programmes
5:00 pm
Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 134: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of the 2007 budget for farm improvement schemes that has been spent; and if the scheme will be retained for its planned five year length. [26799/07]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Farm Improvement Scheme launched last July. The level of applications was being closely monitored having regard to the financial commitment agreed for this Scheme in the current Partnership Agreement. I announced yesterday that applications under the Farm Improvement Scheme have reached the level of funding available and that, as a result, the scheme is closed to new applications for now. Funding for the Scheme is provided as part of the overall package of measures amounting to €8.6 billion of public funding for the agri-food sector which was agreed under the Partnership agreement and is set out in the National Development Plan, 2007-2013.
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