Quotas for farmers with herd disease
The Minister said disease cases had priority under the cessation scheme and could receive priority as flexi-milk became available, but distinguished them from the current new-entrant allocation.
Will the Minister ensure that people who have problems with disease in their herds will be considered for increases in their quotas as some of these people are having problems with their co-operatives?
Comment on this
The cessation scheme which we introduced about one year ago was primarily drawn up to cater for people with disease problems. The milk we are talking about now is primarily directed towards new entrants and I would not like to confuse the two. People with disease problems would get a certain order of priority as flexi-milk becomes available, although the cessation scheme was primarily directed at them.