Dan Neville (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application to the 2012 scheme for new entrants to dairying (details supplied) in County Limerick. [17317/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The reference number submitted above relates to an application received from a different named individual. However it can be assumed, from other documentation received, that the person named in this PQ is the spouse of the applicant to the scheme.

The 2012 Scheme for New Entrants to Dairying concluded in August 2012.The results of the scheme were notified to each of the applicants at that time.

This particular application was among more than 200 received in the Department, each seeking an allocation of 200,000 litres of milk quota under Category A – Brand New Entrant to Dairying. An independent assessment panel examined the applications on the basis of the criteria as set out in the detailed rules of the scheme. This application, when compared against the other applications in this Category, did not receive a sufficiently high standard for an allocation of milk quota on that occasion.

I have recently announced the 2013 Scheme for New Entrants to Dairying. This is the last such scheme and has a closing date for receipt of applications of 7 June 2013. Further information and application forms may be obtained from the Milk Quota Section in my Department.