Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Do we have any of those figures here? It is small in the overall context. Certainly, in terms of the dates the Department set, from memory, we set adjusted dates last year because it was the first year, to try to ensure we hit payment percentages on the dates we had set. Approximately 90% of farmers got their payments - BISS, ANC and all of that - on the date we set. By the end of last year, by Christmas, most of those schemes - ANC, BISS, etc., - were in percentage terms into the high nineties in terms of payment rates. We were down to low single-digit figures across all of those. The one scheme which has been a challenge is the ACRES. That is one we continue to work on. Apart from that, the rest of the schemes, by and large, and certainly the pillar 1 schemes, had very high payment rates and were down to low single-digit numbers at the end of the year.

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