Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 207: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding an application lodged under the installation aid scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [37635/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned is an applicant for aid under the Young Farmers' Installation Scheme and his application is currently being examined within my Department.

Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 208: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding an application in respect of the farm retirement scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [37636/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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An application under the Early Retirement (ERS3) Scheme for the person named was received in my Department on 17 October 2008. It could not be accepted for processing as new applications to the Scheme had been suspended with effect from 15 October 2008.

Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 209: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment of a farm grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [37639/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The person named is an applicant under the Farm Improvement Scheme. Applications under this Scheme are being processed by my Department up to the level of funding provided for the Scheme in the 2006 Partnership agreement, Towards 2016.

Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 210: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will reschedule payment by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the applicant is married, has a young child and suffers from asthma, and that the applicant is going back into the REP scheme and would agree to lodge their REP scheme cheque over the next few years as they become payable. [37663/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The person named had entered a repayment agreement with my Department under which the amount owed in respect of his debt under the Rural Environment Protection Scheme would be deducted from future REPS payments. As monies owed were withheld from his Single Farm Payment in error, arrangements are now being made by my Department to refund them as a matter of urgency.