Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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1238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to devise a mechanism whereby the purchase of a low emission slurry applicator machine is incorporated into future rollout of the TAMS scheme, with special emphasis placed on agricultural contractors who have not qualified for previous TAMS schemes but are now required under legislation to have this specialised machinery to undertake their work. [1775/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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A condition of the EU co-funded TAMS II Measures is that recipients of grant aid are farmers. I have no plans to extend the Scheme to include agricultural contractors and am precluded by legislation from doing so.