The Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023 is on the agenda this week. Will the debate on the mayor of Limerick Bill be guillotined? Farmers have already experienced serious delays to BISS payments and to payments under the ANC and eco-schemes.
There has been pressure and not all farmers have been able to receive the ACRES payment as soon as we would have liked but there will be payments made next week to a significant cohort of ACRES farmers and they are all due to be communicated with in due course. Suddenly, Revenue, and the Minister, Deputy McGrath, has referred to this in the Finance Bill, has just decided farmers cannot get the VAT refunded. On the issue raised by Deputy Conway-Walsh, I absolutely accept there is a challenge for farmers with regard to ACRES payments, particularly farmers who have worked with their advisers and undertaken the measures to be implemented this year.
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