Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 1046: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding persons who availed of the farm retirement scheme, implying the surrendering of their herd number; if these herd numbers will be reactivated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32992/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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A person who is admitted to the Scheme of Early Retirement from Farming has undertaken to cease farming definitively and cannot be given a herd number at any time after that.