Seymour Crawford
Ceist:2 Mr. Crawford asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry his views on whether the delay in the final 1993 ewe premium pay-out is acceptable; the number of farmers to be paid premium for 1993; and whether he has deployed adequate resources, including staff, to cope with the huge increase in CAP-driven bureaucracy to ensure prompt payments to farmers in 1994 in return for production cutbacks.