Dáil Éireann - Volume 459 - 14 December, 1995

Written Answers. - REPS Grants.

Éamon Ó Cuív Éamon Ó Cuív

125. Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Social Welfare if grants payable under the REPS scheme are assessed similar to other livestock headage and premia payments for the purpose of means-testing for unemployment assistance. [19021/95]

Minister for Social Welfare (Proinsias De Rossa) Proinsias De Rossa

Minister for Social Welfare (Proinsias De Rossa): Payments to smallholders under the rural environmental protection scheme are assessable under current legislation as part of the means of applicants for unemployment assistance.

However, as I indicated to the Deputy in reply to a previous parliamentary question of 14 November the question of exempting income received by farmers under the rural environmental protection scheme from assessment as means for unemployment assistance purposes is under consideration by my Department in conjunction with the Departments of Finance and Agriculture, Food and Forestry.

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