Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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Question 153: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the transfer of milk quota (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24653/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person referred to in the question is permitted to permanently transfer his milk quota from one farm owned by him to another, without reference to my Department.

Changes introduced in the most recent version of the Milk Quota Regulations (SI No. 227 of 2008 (as amended)) dispensed with the requirement for a milk producer to seek permission from my Department to transfer quota between lands owned/leased by him or her.

Under the current Regulations a producer who wishes to sell or otherwise dispose of all or part of the lands used for milk production by him or her, may do so while retaining the milk quota attached to such lands.