Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

2:00 am

Mr. Paul Savage:

That is what I am saying. The lessons learned are about doing the most we can to streamline the operation of the system and ensure it is more efficient for the advance payments later in the year. We wanted to ensure we developed every element of the system correctly and fully so that the system would work effectively and we did not create any additional issues for ourselves as far as payments were concerned. That is why we did not take a shortcut of processing manual or paper-based payments or whatever it might be. That would only create problems for farmers and ourselves in the long-term, as has been done in the past. We learned from that lesson previously that we did not want to do that again. We now have a system that has the elements of functionality in place and we can rely on that to function more effectively in the future. That is what we will take forward into the next advance payments later this year.

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