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. Francis Morrin:

If it is okay I will deal with them in reverse order. The Senator is 100% correct on the entitlements matter he raised. Where somebody leases out their entitlements, there is a level of trust there that the farmer who is receiving those entitlements has enough land to activate them. If that farmer has leased in those entitlements and does not have the land for the two years, they will lose those entitlements. We will remove them to the national reserve. It is incumbent on the person leasing out and leasing in to make sure they are fully activated for that period of time. That is in the regulations, in the CSP and that is the way it has been since 2015. This is absolutely something that comes as a shock to farmers who are affected by this but that is the system in place.

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