Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant aid will continue into the future for environmental programmes for hedge planting and tree planting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43566/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I have decided that the re-opened Agri-Environment Options Scheme will operate largely on the same basis as in previous years and that the same measures and rates of payment will be available, including the measures providing for hedgerow and tree planting.