Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 November 2015
261. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application under the beef data genomics programme by a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be considered with 2013 as a reference year, given the considerable force majeure issues in 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40078/15]
View answerThe person named applied to participate in the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) 2015-2020. The Terms and Conditions of the Scheme state that the number of cows that calved in a participants herd in 2014 shall be the reference number of animals for the BDGP but that in certain limited circumstances the number of cows that calved in 2015 may be permitted as the number of reference animals. The person named requested to use 2013 as the reference year but there is no provision under which a year other than 2014 or 2015 can be used.
