Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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73. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts being made to put supports in place for forgotten farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24655/23]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I have long supported the cohort of farmers known as the forgotten farmers and I have committed to assisting them who find themselves, in many cases, in this situation through no fault of their own.

We have developed a preliminary outline of a proposal to provide support to the forgotten farmer group. There are a number of issues to be addressed, for example, the funding required and consistency with the public expenditure, before the details of the eligibility requirements and benefits to successful applicants under a scheme can be finalised.

Details of the scheme will be made available as soon as this process has been completed. We will step this out as soon as possible as this cohort of farmers, who meet the criteria, deserve to be supported and I will do everything in my power to deliver for them.