Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 14 February 2024
262. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under ACRES will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6811/24]
View answerThe person named is among those in the ACRES Co-operation Project stream awaiting payments.
The level of environmental ambition within ACRES and the scaling up of a results-based system brings with it many opportunities for farmers, but is not without its challenges. ACRES Co-operation Project payments are more complex to administer and work is ongoing in this regard, with every effort being made to deliver payments as quickly as possible, including to the person named.
As the Deputy will be aware, last Friday, 9th February 2024, I announced that I will be making 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.
