Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I believe that an appeals process will be beneficial. I hope those meetings will result in a resolution for everybody involved. In the latter half of year 2 the scorecards are only coming out. For the farmers themselves, the repayments and all of that issue was based on the scorecards but they could not access their own scorecards. That was an issue.

Family farms are struggling. I know myself that when one is struggling financially any delays in payments, or any repayments where one must pay money back, have a detrimental impact on the whole household. I do not believe it is appropriate they have had to go through this process as there have been so many difficulties. It is hard to see how their payments for this year will be on time in November if, by the end of September, not all 100% have received their payment from last year.

There are a number of other issues that I did not get to touch on here today but it is really important that the Minister look at an appeals process for farmers.

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