Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Some 18,000 in the co-operation stream. In total, we will see 26,000 farmers receive the interim payment of either €4,000 in the case of the 8,000 general stream farmers who have not been paid, or €5,000 for the 18,000 co-operation stream farmers, none of whom have received a payment yet. I accept what the Deputy is saying. Farmers will be very keen to see the level of their final payment. The scoring was published and is publicly available. It would have been scored by the co-operation teams in each area and then returned to the Department. What that score is going to be and how different commonages are amalgamated and how they come together is part of what the build will determine in bringing all of those scores together. That is why getting it finalised has been complicated. I think the interim payment will be important in getting payments to farmers to allow them a couple of months to get that finalised, to get the final payment clarified and to get the final balancing payments made to farmers.

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