Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 191: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when, in connection with the farm waste management scheme, she will request a deferral beyond December 2008 for up to two years to allow the works applied for and approved to be completed as otherwise it will not be possible to achieve present deadlines where planning or agricultural building industry capacity would not be able to cope with meeting the present deadline. [3026/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The end-2008 deadline for completion of work by farmers under the revised Farm Waste Management Scheme introduced by my Department in March 2006 is a strict condition of the EU state aid approval for the Scheme. I have no plans to approach the EU Commission to alter the terms of the state aid approval.