Dáil debates
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions
Agriculture Schemes
11:30 am
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I wish to raise the two streams of ACRES - corporation and general. This was generally done correctly but some of them were wrongly allocated. Many of those wrongly allocated were put into the right allocation, which was the corporation applications, but some of them are still outstanding. It is particularly affecting situations where holdings are designated as special areas of conservation are not scored or paid in ACRES. This has been picked up recently. Is it possible for these holdings that were wrongly classified as general to be moved to the corporation stream because the holdings in question have already scored and this would lead to eliminating the proposed loss of income for these farmers? This can be corrected. It does not affect many farmers but it is really important to those it does affect. Could the Minister look at that?
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