Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to re-instate installation aid for category D young farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4721/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I have no plans to re-introduce the Young Farmers Installation Scheme. As the applicant named in this case has been set up in farming for over five years he is not eligible for the Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme in TAMS II.

However, I am aware that there are a number of farmers such as the applicant who have missed out on previous grant schemes and I intend to prioritise their applications under all of the other TAMS schemes where the grant rate is payable at 40%.