Paul Connaughton (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme will open for farm buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10412/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Rural Development Programme for the 2014-2020 period which was submitted to the EU Commission for approval in July 2014, includes provision for a range of on-farm investment schemes. Investments in farm buildings in general have been identified as an area which will be targeted in the TAMS scheme with grant aid for dairy buildings being specifically available for qualifying young farmers and delivered through the Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme. Commission approval is awaited before the TAMS schemes are launched. That process is well underway, but it is not possible at this stage to fix definitive dates for their introduction.