Michael J. Noonan
Question:222 Mr. Noonan (Limerick West) asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a milk quota was not restored to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick under the Mulder scheme.
Written Answers. - Milk Quota.
The producer in question applied for a special or "Mulder" milk quota in 1989. Under the relevant Community legislation to be found in Article 3a of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 857/84 such quota could only be granted where the applicant satisfied the Department of his or her ability to produce milk to the extent of the special quota applied for and gave undertakings to resume milk sales or deliveries and not to apply for assistance under any programme for the abandonment of milk quotas. In refusing to sign the requisite declarations and undertakings constituting part of the relevant application form the producer in question indicated that the level of the quota (60 per cent of the premium gallonage) was useless to him and that he also needed to be compensated for being without a quota since 1985. His application had eventually to be turned down for persistent failure by him to give the necessary undertakings, and he was so informed.