Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Agricultural Schemes: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
5:30 pm
Mr. Paul Savage:
Some 19,150 people were paid the general advance payment between December 2023 and February of this year. At the point that second payment went to those general advance recipients, it was clear we were not going to be able to make the other payments in accordance with the schedule we had set out. That is why we moved down to the interim payments, which meant that the balance of people who had not received the advance payment were then paid the interim payment in February or March.