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. Thomas Harty:
During past inspections, we could not pay the farmer until the inspection was done but what the Senator said is completely understandable. Often, farmers have asked in the past why, when it turned out there was no issue, was the money held but it has changed a bit. Area monitoring has been introduced. I am conscious of time, so we can go into detail later on. However, on the second point that under-claim on one parcel and over-claim on the other should offset, that is called cross-compensation. If it did not, the only reason it would not is if, for example, one parcel was made up of something like beans, as in it was a protein-aid scheme, and the other-----
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