Dáil debates

Thursday, 27 October 2016

Other Questions

GLAS Expenditure

3:30 pm

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Anybody who joins the scheme gets a five-year cut at it. The Deputy is suggesting I should have a cut-off point in 2020 whereas those who get their payments in 2017 will have five years. The State is paying the AEOS and REPS grants because these payments roll over. They are not so cleanly defined, cut and packaged as to be for exactly five years. Every penny provided under the rural development programme for the period 2014-20 may not be drawn down within that calendar period but it will be available. Therefore, somebody who goes into the scheme in January of next year will get a five-year payment, so payments will run until at least 2021.

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