Written answers
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Agriculture Scheme Payments
Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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941. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that will be taken by his Department to ensure that the delay in respect of AEOS and GLAS payments does not arise again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33739/17]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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2015 and 2016 were exceptionally busy years in the development and roll out of the GLAS scheme. A dedicated online application and payment system was developed in house and over 50,000 farmers were approved into the scheme.
As I previously indicated unanticipated problems presented with the roll out of the new payment system some of which had to be resolved on a case by case basis.
I am satisfied that the lessons learned from the initial roll out of the system will result in a more effective delivery going forward.
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