Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 June 2004
104 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare will not qualify for milk quota from the national reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19066/04]
View answerIn 2000, I put in place a scheme for the allocation of 5 million gallons of the additional quota negotiated under Agenda 2000 to young milk producers who satisfied certain defined criteria. Furthermore, in 2001 an additional 4.5 million gallons was allocated to young farmers. Under those schemes the educational-training requirements were categorised at two levels, one level applying in the case of persons born before 1 January 1968 and another in the case of those born after that date. The person named applied under both schemes referred to above but as he did not satisfy the educational requirements appropriate in his case, he did not qualify for an allocation.
Allocations of milk quota from the national reserve are granted on the basis of recommendations from the milk quota appeals tribunal. The tribunal is a body established to consider and advise on applications for additional quota from individual producers who have suffered severe hardship in the context of the milk quota system. The person named last submitted an application for additional quota on the grounds of hardship in the 2002-03 quota year and he received an allocation on that occasion. He may apply again to the tribunal in the current 2004-05 quota year when the forms become available in the autumn.
105 Mr. M. Moynihan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the transfer of milk quota to a person (details supplied) in County Cork from the vendor will be finalised. [19075/04]
View answerThe transfer of the quota in this case will be finalised within the coming week and that transfer will have effect from the 2003-04 milk quota year.
