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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: No. The number of people that did not get paid at the end of 2023.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How many people were waiting at the end of 2024?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Savage think it is acceptable that farmers waited two years? Would he wait two years for his few quid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Where is the accountability?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We will go back a little bit. I have been here ten years. I was here for GLAS and I saw for two or three years, the same dangling going on below in Wexford with that. We were in trouble for a few years. To be fair, it was sorted quicker. We are three years into this scheme and Mr. Savage mentioned figures earlier of 1,625, 558 and 3,300. In the case of how many farmers is it their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Savage mentioned it earlier when talking about farmers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How many?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the Department going to do a review of this to try to simplify it over the coming months to make sure that whatever needs to be dropped or got rid of, be it IT or whatever is going wrong, the Department will have it perfected for the payments come the end of this year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the Department going to do for the farmer who had delays in 2023 and 2024 and now 2025? For tax purposes, what is the Department going to do for them? Have our witnesses talked to the Department of public expenditure? If farmers have kids in college, there is a threshold on it. What is the Department going to do for those farmers because of its mistakes, not theirs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Did the Department go to the Department of public expenditure to ask it to give a special dispensation because the Department was at fault, not the farmer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the witnesses do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If a farmer has to pay €9,000 in college fees because of this, tough luck.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Their kids could be going to college.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What sort of helpline is the Department talking about setting up to deal with farmers on ACRES? To be fair, a person could ring that man over there, Willie Murphy, but other than that - I am talking about the ACRES side of it - when you ring Wexford, it is like trying to ring Santa. You never get an answer. Mr. Savage is the senior person. I rang him myself a few times and did not get an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will show Mr. Savage on my phone if he wants to see.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: You press the button to call back.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Savage did not call me in the past week about it if he knew about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will Mr. Savage explain if I am right in saying that when BISS, CRISS and all of those have their mapping done, when the Department imposes its maps down on it, that they were not adding up? This is what we have been told. Was it that the Department got different contractors to do its digitisation or mapping than Portlaoise had?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Did the Department get different contractors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Was there a problem with the layering?