Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the latest date for accepting applications under the TAMS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53559/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Schemes (TAMS) form part of the 2007-2013 Rural Development Programme. I have, therefore, no plans to extend the current closing date and farmers must lodge an application with my Department on or before 31 December 2013 in order to be eligible for grant-aid under the TAMS. However, the TAMS Sow Welfare Scheme has been extended to the end of February 2014 as a small number of farmers were unable to complete the investment works by the previous closing date of end of September 2013.

The determination of the farm sectors in which investment aid will be made available in the next rural development programme is currently under consideration within my Department.