Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 13 February 2014
231. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is intended from 2015 onwards to pay the greening payment with the BNS payment; if it is intended to pay it in two tranches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7358/14]
View answerUnder the new regime, which will replace the Single Payment Scheme in 2015, with four separate elements, viz (i) the Basic Payment, (ii) the Greening element, (iii) the Top-up for Young Farmers and (iv) the coupled Aid for Protein. However, with discussions on-going at EU level on both the delegated Act and the implementing Act, it is not possible, at this stage, to indicate precisely what the payment arrangements will be.
