Liam Aylward
Ceist:101 Mr. Aylward asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will have arrangements made to have arrears under the farm retirement scheme paid to persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny whose application was approved in 1995 although payment was not made until February 1996, in view of the policy currently being adopted by his Department not to penalise applicants under this scheme where unavoidable delays were caused in the processing of documents relating to the application. [16193/97]