Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 1565: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the plans he has to extend the deadline for payment of the farm waste management scheme to 30 June 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29945/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The deadline of 31 December 2008 for completion of work by farmers under the revised Farm Waste Management Scheme introduced by my Department in March 2006 is a condition of the EU state aid approval for the Scheme. I have raised this issue with the European Commission, as recently as July and the Commission has since reaffirmed that it expects Ireland to respect this deadline strictly.