Agriculture Schemes
Dail Éireann — 2023-04-20
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Claire Kerrane (SF), Roscommon-Galway

It is really important that we put the details of how this is going to work out there. Geotagging, photos and apps for uploading photographs will be a minefield for a certain percentage of farmers. I understand the texts will go out to farmers from June. In some cases, farmers will get a text message from the Department to say they are in the red. Then they will have to go about getting the photograph uploaded. It is important that as much information as possible is put out there because that is going to pose difficulty for some farmers. It will be particularly problematic for hill farmers in respect of how the satellite will work and the geotagging. Even something as simple as broadband for uploading to an app could be problematic.
Along with all of the other changes that will come in, another outworking is the delay to the payment dates for this year for the basic income support for sustainability, BISS, scheme and the ANCs. That delay has been confirmed. When will those payments to farmers will be made? I presume they are a result of all the changes that are coming.

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Sitting date: 2023-04-20