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. Francis Morrin:

Okay. On that point, whatever argument there might be between the farmer, who is the person leasing out, and the auctioneer is a civil matter between the two of them. That is fine. However, in terms of the regulations on what happens to the entitlements, as I have outlined already that is exactly what will happen. They will revert. It is not that they are penalised. It is that the entitlements are removed to the national reserve.