Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 388: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the status of the application of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow regarding milk quota; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18564/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The only record available in respect of the person named is of an application to purchase milk quota in the second stage of the 2007/2008 Milk Quota Trading Scheme. He applied as a new entrant under 35 years of age, but was over the qualifying age limit and his application was ruled ineligible by the Co-Operative.

The rules regarding eligibility for new entrants over 35 years of age were changed in the 2009/2010 Trading Scheme, to the effect that this person would have been able to purchase quota through the Scheme. Details of the next Trading Scheme will be advertised in the farming press in the autumn.