Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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1230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the exact criteria that exist for funding under TAMS 2 for purchase of trailing shoe equipment. [36690/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Trailing shoe equipment is available in TAMS II under the Low Emission Slurry Spreading Scheme and the Young Farmers Capital Investment Scheme.  To qualify under the Low Emission Slurry Spreading Scheme an applicant must have a Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine identifier and have a minimum of 5 hectares declared under the basic Payment Scheme or be engaged in the breeding, rearing and fattening of pigs.  To qualify under the Young Farmers Capital Investment Scheme an applicant must also be not more than 40 years of age and farming for less than five years at the time of submitting the application.  An applicant applying under the Young Farmer Scheme must also fulfil the requirement regarding occupational skill and competence on the date the application is submitted or within three years of the date the approval letter to commence the works is issued.