Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 274: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a REP scheme farmer must be compulsory purchase ordered in order to provide land to a local authority to improve road safety; her plans to review this policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9495/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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If land which is part of a REPS contract is disposed of on foot of a compulsory purchase order, reimbursement of REPS payments already made on the area is not required. In practice, however, my Department does not normally look for payments to be refunded if it is satisfied that land is disposed of to a local authority for the public good without a compulsory purchase order.