Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) under the knowledge transfer scheme. [17397/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Knowledge Transfer (KT) is one of a suite of measures included under the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 and involves the formation of knowledge transfer groups across the beef, dairy, equine, sheep, tillage and poultry sectors.

Farmer participants attend group meetings and produce a Farm Improvement Plan in consultation with their KT Facilitator. For each year of the three-year programme participants receive a reimbursement in the amount of €750 for a primary sector and €375 for a secondary sector where all requirements of the programme have been met.

The person named is a primary participant in the Knowledge Transfer Sheep Programme. He has met all requirements of the scheme and has now been cleared for payment. It is expected that payment will issue to the person named shortly.