Michael Creed
Question:489. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in Cork. [6271/24]
View answerTuesday, 13 February 2024
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The person named is among those in the ACRES Co-operation Project stream awaiting payments.
As the Deputy will be aware, my officials are continuing the processing of further ACRES payments, following their commencement last December 2023.
This is taking more time to complete than originally anticipated. Therefore, I have decided to make an interim payment to all ACRES participants, both General and Co-operation Project, who have not yet received their advance payment for 2023. Further details will be provided in the coming days. I intend to deliver this payment by the end of February.
Intensive work will continue on the calculation of the full payments due to farmers under ACRES, and when this work is completed, the final payments issued to farmers will take into account the interim payments already made to the relevant participants.