Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail)
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189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in the young farmers scheme for 2017 and 2018, per county in tabular form; if there are proposed changes planned to streamline the terms and conditions of this scheme for 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3276/19]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The number of participants in the Young Farmers Scheme per county for 2017 and 2018 is set out in the following table:

Some 95% of applications under the 2018 Young Farmers Scheme are finalised.  The applications that remain outstanding are cases where the Department is working with individual applicants where outstanding information is required to finally process the application or where the required administrative and on-farm checks are required to be completed to determine eligibility for participation in the scheme in 2018.

The full Terms and Conditions of the 2019 Young Farmers Scheme will be made available when the scheme launches for online applications in early February.  It is expected that the terms and conditions will be consistent with those that applied in 2017 and 2018.