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:
Yes, but it is difficult to be specific because there are specific circumstances associated with each individual case. Some will have one particular issue. Some, once the issue is resolved, may have another knock-on issue we have to resolve. Until we process the payments and do what we call a roll-over, where we refresh the data for payments every week, it is at that point we see what the remaining issue is in respect of individual cases. On some occasions when we resolve a particular issue or get it ready for payment there may be something else that is causing a problem, some other document that has not been received or whatever it might be, that then might hold that up a little longer. It is just that it is difficult for us to be specific in advance about what happens in each of those cases, but where they come up and where we come across them weekly our teams in Wexford are working specifically and in a very dedicated way on getting them resolved. We have a dedicated team already, and it has been there for a while, on the 2023 payments. We are absolutely focused on processing the remaining payments as quickly as possible. That is our target. We will get all the remaining ones out as quickly as possible.
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