Creed: Farm Waste Management Scheme deadline must be extended

GROWING calls for an extension to the Farm Waste Management Scheme (FWMS) deadline beyond December 31 will be raised by Fine Gael in the Dáil today.

The party’s agriculture spokesperson Michael Creed, TD, said he doesn’t accept that the deadline can’t be extended once a compelling case is made to the European Union.

“This refusal to extend the deadline is completely unjustified and I find it hard to see how the Minister and the department’s hard-headed adherence to December 31 is in anybody’s interest,” he said.