Basic Payment Scheme Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 March 2017

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Questions (1020)

Michael Fitzmaurice

Question:

1020. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons under 40 years of age with a green certificate that started farming between 2000 and 2008 that received payments under the BPS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12930/17]

Written answers

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

My Department does not hold records of farmers under the age of forty who hold green certificates except where that information has been submitted by individual farmers as a requirement under an application for a particular scheme.