Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector
9:00 am
Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:
Yes. We have no intention of giving up on the €50,000 either - just to get that message out. We would be pretty confident on this one. Dairy farmers are familiar with superlevy payments. It is not the first time they have incurred superlevy payments. They do know that this was of particular benefit to them.
Interestingly, 2,700 farmers decided to pay upfront. They decided not to use the deferred option. I can actually understand that. If one had the cash at that time, it was a matter of just getting it off one's back and going. In fact, those who opted for-----