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:
I might take the last point first regarding rolling over from GLAS into ACRES. I mentioned earlier that ACRES was essentially a very different scheme to GLAS. Each time we have gone through the past couple of CAP cycles, the environmental scheme has been very different. On this occasion, ACRES was building on the learnings from GLAS and what we had been doing in the European Innovation Partnerships in respect of results-based systems as well as the REAP programme, which was a test of the results-based system on the ground. It was very different and not just a case of carrying over people from GLAS to ACRES. People had to sign up to a very different scheme compared to GLAS. We must take that approach where people sign up to the new scheme at the start of each programme because there are different elements to it than would have been the case previously.
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