Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 146: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has received a reduced farm retirement payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4245/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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It is a requirement of the EU Council Regulation under which the Early Retirement Scheme 2000-06 was introduced that the Early Retirement pension can be paid only as a supplement to any national retirement pension to which the participant, and his or her spouse or partner in a joint management arrangement, is entitled.

In the case of the person named, she became entitled to a national retirement pension (Non-Contributory) from 18 January 2008, and as required under the Early Retirement Scheme, the amount of this national pension had to be offset against her Early Retirement Pension.