New deadline set for pig producers’ aid

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has extended the deadline for TAMS Sow Welfare Scheme applications to the end of January, 2013.

He said he was aware that a small number of pig producers had been unable to lodge valid applications by last week’s original closing date.

All applications received during the extension will be included in a new final tranche for which €3 million will be available. Other conditions in the Scheme remain unchanged, including the final date for completion of work and lodgement of a payment claim (the end of September, 2013).