Mr. Enda Monaghan:

I was one of the guys that was protesting outside today. I have not got GLAS payments and I did not receive payments for organic farming. We met people from the Department last November who said that if a person got the single farm payment, he or she would get the organic farming payment. The middle of December came and a few of my colleagues had received nothing. They rang and they said that there seems to be a problem. I have a direct line to one of the guys and I rang him and he said that it looked like there was an IT problem. That was what he told me for my own payment. He said that in the new year, it should be okay. I waited for two weeks in the new year, and when I got on to him again, he said to give him my herd number. It was the same guy that I was talking to on previous occasions. He then told me that I was overpaid last year. It was the first that I heard about it. He said that my 2016 payment was ready to go, all the boxes were ticked but the computer could not talk to the other computer. I asked if I could send in a cheque for what they overpaid me. He said no. I still have not got paid today.