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Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 9 October 2012

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Questions (510)

Brendan Griffin

Question:

510. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine if trees and hedgegrow planting will be included in the new agri environment options scheme; if he sees merit in exceeding simply the requirement for planting; if he will acknowledge the damage that the omission would cause to small rural garden centres and growers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43008/12]

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I have decided that the re-opened Agri-environment Options Scheme (AEOS) will operate largely on the same basis as in previous years and that the same measures and rates of payment will be available, including the measures providing for hedgerow and tree planting. Details of the scheme which I announced with funding of €20m will be available on the Department’s website in the next day or two. The closing date for applications is 30 November and my aim is to ensure that all applications are processed with a view to approving the new participants in the scheme with effect from 1 April 2013.

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