Basic Payment Scheme Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 March 2017

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Ceisteanna (1021)

Michael Fitzmaurice

Ceist:

1021. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average payment to farmers under 40 years of age with green certificates who started farming between 2000 and 2008 under the BPS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12931/17]

Freagraí scríofa

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.