Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 493: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department operates a grant scheme to provide financial assistance to young people wishing to purchase milk quotas in order to start up a dairy farm business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3784/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department does not operate such a grant scheme. However, it does operate a Milk Quota Trading Scheme, through which young people, subject to certain conditions, have an opportunity to purchase milk quota as priority applicants, in order to enter the dairy business.

Full details of the Milk Quota Trading Scheme are available from Co-operatives and from my Department.