Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 369: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the farm waste management grant in respect of a person (details suppled); if this can be re-examined and the maximum awarded as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5519/10]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned is an applicant under the Farm Waste Management Scheme. The maximum grant available to the applicant under the Scheme has now been approved in this case. The first two instalments of grant-aid have been paid by my Department to the applicant and the final instalment will be paid in January 2011.

I have also announced that a special ex-gratia payment not exceeding 3.5 per cent of the value of the deferred amount will be made to farmers whose Farm Waste Management grants have been partially deferred. This payment will be made in January 2011 along with the final instalment.