Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The score informs the payment. Where a farmer gets the full payment, it is based on the score and only occurs when the score is finalised. On giving farmers approval for NPIs, every farmer in the co-operation scheme has €17,500 available to spend over the course of ACRES to take steps which will see improvements in the scores at farm level. That €17,500 is still available to every farmer. We want to make sure farmers get those approvals to start drawing that €17,500 down so it can impact their score and their base payment.

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