Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There are a number of issues that have to be worked through in cases where people have not been paid yet. As we discussed with Deputy Crowe earlier there are probate issues, for example, which every year hold up a number of payments. The team is working through it with the objective of getting it up to 95% and, as I said previously, 82% had received their full payment at the end of last year. Everyone in this scheme has received either 85% of what they are due or either €4,000 or €5,000. As a result of the interim payment approach that was taken to make sure we could get payments out to people, some of them actually received a higher payment than they were due. We put in place a process to make sure that in those instances farmers can ensure it is netted off future ACRES payments and contained within their overall ACRES payment structure.

With regard to the scores, the first port of call is engaging with the ACRES co-operation project, CP, teams that have done the scoring. At the moment the CP teams are holding meetings with farmers to discuss the scores that different commonages have had and updating farmers on the reasons behind those scores.

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