Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way his Department categorise a horticulture enterprise and in particular if horticulture is categorised as farming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44248/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Horticulture is regarded as a branch of agriculture.

Consequently, horticultural production comes within the responsibility of my Department and a practitioner of horticulture would be regarded by my Department as either a farmer or grower.