Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The point I was making was that any ex gratiapayment will require the sanction of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Accordingly, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has examined the options with regard to compensation and engaged with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the required sanction for compensation. The proposed compensation package will target those landowners - both farmers and people with forestry contracts - affected by the landslide.

It is the intention to avoid any overlap between the application processes for the compensation scheme and for the basic payment scheme, BPS, the ANC and other Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, schemes. They will have to be separated out in order that there will be no overlap between the schemes.

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