Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the balance for 2023 and the total outstanding amount for 2024 will be paid to a person (details supplied) in respect of the ACRES payment scheme. [14976/25]

Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to examine the case of a person (details supplied). [15067/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 586 and 590 together.

The person named was accepted into ACRES General Tranche 1, with a contract commencement date of January 1st 2023. An advance payment of €6,214.23 issued to the herd owner in December 2023 in respect of their participation in the Scheme in 2023.

My Department has identified the cause of the issue that has been preventing this case from passing the required validations for the balancing payment for 2023, and a solution is currently being put in place. Once the payment claim for 2023 is finalised, the case will then progress to validation checks for the 2024 advance payment. Further pay runs, to participants in both tranches, are continuing every 10 days as cases pass all required validation checks.

I can assure you that everything is being done to pay, as soon as possible, all ACRES participants who clear pre-payment checks.