Dan Neville
Ceist:208 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development the reason farm retirement payments were discontinued to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [11818/02]
Vol. 552 No. 1
208 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development the reason farm retirement payments were discontinued to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [11818/02]
The person named entered the scheme of early retirement from farming in joint management with her husband. In keeping with the requirements of the EU Council regulation under which the scheme was introduced, any national retirement pension paid to either the participant or the other party in a joint management case must be offset against the pension paid under the early retirement scheme.