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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: Was it ever considered to do it like the French? The French department got a loan from its equivalent of the Department of public expenditure, paid the farmers the money, and when it was rectified paid it back. Why was not that done for a few years? It is like a snake in the grass. The Department will get you sooner or later because people apply for payments every year. So if something is...
- 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 did not call them snakes but gave the equivalent that the Department can wait for you and get you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I right that the average payment was €4,300? So if even €4,000 was given every year and a deal done with the Department of public expenditure and when it was rectified to pull it back, would that initiative not have saved an awful lot of hassle? The French did it in 2016.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Farmers would be entitled in the two years of 2023 and 2024 to €10,000 where they got €4,000 or €5,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Some farmers would have to get more money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister has agreed that he would set up an IT system because of the storm in terms of all roofs of sheds. Has that been done yet? When is it going to be done?
- 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 know but when?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When is later?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Can Mr. Savage say whether that will happen in September, October, November or December?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: A sum of €5 million was allocated for the scheme for young farmers because of an agreement in the programme for Government. It is continually sitting there so what is happening with the scheme? When will the Government try and help those young 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: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Department did not tell them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Department did not tell them.
- 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 I am correct, 558 farmers have not been paid for 2023. Is that the figure that was given to me?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They have received no money since day one.
- 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 have they been given?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They are still not sorted. There are 558 of them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There are 558 of them and I am asking whether, within the next two months, the Department will have them brought up to date. It is a simple yes-no answer.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Programmes (1 Jul 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to the 2022 pilot farm environmental study programme, the delivery of which was awarded to an organisation (details supplied) after a public tender process; when the decision not to proceed with the study programme was made by his Department; when the organisation was informed by his Department that it no longer planned...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Programmes (1 Jul 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the decision not to proceed with the 2022 Pilot Farm Environmental Study Programme was made by his Department; when an organisation (details supplied) was informed by his Department that it no longer planned to proceed with the study programme; the reason the programme did not proceed as planned; and if he will make a...