Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Priorities of Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Discussion

5:00 pm

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

I take the Deputy's point. I will get on to the Tipperary office. I do not know what is going on. The claims system is in place. However, what we have found is a real issue for us. Under the first tranche, there were 2,952 applications, 2,483 of those were approved and 234 claims were submitted. I cannot be sure about what is going on here. My colleague, Mr. Paul Dillon, has arranged for farmers who have not submitted claims to be texted to ask if they are going ahead with their investments. Of those who received the text, about half replied. I cannot remember the exact number of those-----

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