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, I can give that assurance. We have all of our systems in place now. We have our functionality fixed. Issues will inevitably come up in individual cases, which is the natural, normal run of the fair in terms of people changing ownership or transferring holdings or whatever it might be that we will have to deal with next year in the normal way. We carry out a process called a rollover which updates all our ACRES data on foot of BISS data received in a given year. That usually throws up a few cases of inconsistencies and issues that have to be resolved. We will do that in any event. Our systems have been fixed in terms of the IT functionality in place. We will also be working on streamlining our process further and making sure those systems are working effectively for the advance payments in 2025, which start in November.
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