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
Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North-West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
We will have an opportunity to go around again for each member. Once the Senators come in after their vote, we will give them the opportunity.
I have one or two questions on this. Were there particular things the Department identified as causing problems but where a fix could be put in place so that this would not happen again with future schemes? What has been learned from it? We do not want to see a situation like this recurring. People who would have been on earlier schemes and had expected to continue in a similar scheme put in the same farm and expected to continue getting an income on it in ACRES. Why would those people rolling over into ACRES not have been able to be paid in a reasonable period? Why would they have been caught up in this when they were just rolling over into the next scheme?
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