Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 November 2004
354 Mr. Wall asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the payments due to persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; further to previous parliamentary questions, the position regarding decoupling and the problems that they have now in regard to leasing and milk quotas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30201/04]
View answerHaving checked the Department's database using the details supplied, there is no evidence that any payments are due to the persons named. As indicated in previous replies in respect of the decoupled dairy premium, where a lease of lands and milk quota expires during the milk quota year, that part of the milk quota utilised by the lessee will be available to that person for the purpose of establishing the decoupled premium in 2005. The remainder of the leased quota will be transferred to the lessor, if the lease is not renewed. The lessor will be entitled to the decoupled dairy premium on the transferred quota if he or she is a milk producer during the 2004-05 milk quota year or commences milk production in his or her own right prior to May 2005.
