Written answers
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Department of Agriculture and Food
Farm Waste Management
9:00 pm
Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 210: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost to the State of an extension of the farm waste management scheme to June 2008. [41808/08]
Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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I presume the Deputy is referring to an extension of the Scheme concerned to June 2009.
It is not possible at this stage to provide an estimate of the additional cost which such an extension might involve.
Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 211: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will re-visit his decision to refuse to extend the farm waste management scheme in view of the need to prolong existing employment levels in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41815/08]
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. The EU Commission has repeatedly stated that the exceptional extension to end December 2008 has to be strictly adhered to.
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