Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

The suckler cow payments are processed from the Portlaoise office of the Department and I am not aware of people awaiting payments. In many instances the Department has been back to individual farmers clarifying aspects of the applications that were deficient, or whatever. The payments are issuing rapidly. If there is a query about a particular applicant we will check it out.

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