The publication of CAP payments to residents of Dublin city always throws up interesting cases. My favourite this year is Woodhouse Property Ltd, the Irish branch of a Hong Kong-registered company drawing €21,371 in combined BPS and ANC payments from an industrial estate in Finglas. The company has a registered representative in Co Roscommon, so I suspect that’s where the land is farmed.
Allsworth Estates Ltd’s €21,339 BPS payment to its address at a five-star hotel in Ballsbridge also caught my eye. The company’s directors reside in London and in the Isle of Man – maybe that’s where they farm.
Department records do not specify whether company director Gerard Dillon is the person of the same name claiming another €168,901 in BPS and ANC payments
AP Dillon & Co Ltd, a sister company to Moyvalley Meats and the Dillon family’s live exports business, received €61,905 in BPS and ANC payments. Its address on the city’s north quays is no doubt an office base for the family’s farming interests on the Kildare-Meath border. Department records do not specify whether company director Gerard Dillon is the person of the same name claiming another €168,901 in BPS and ANC payments, also out of Dublin’s north inner city.
And what to say about the rest of the country?
Keen CAP payment watchers will be surprised to see the name of the Representatives of Nicholas Furlong at the head of the payments table. This beneficiary received no payment whatsoever in the previous year. It must be remembered that the CAP payments indicate how much money was paid out in a given year. It does not indicate what years that money was paid out for.
Most high beneficiaries are seeing their payments cut year on year due to flattening or convergence of farm payments
The €323,292 received in the EU financial year of 2018 (from 16 October 2017 to 15 October 2018) may well have been due for an accumulation of years; indeed it must be so.
As recounted by Barry Cassidy, horse breeders and beef barons continue to feature prominently among CAP beneficiaries.
The Goodman, Queally, Al Maktoum and Magnier clans all feature. Most high beneficiaries are seeing their payments cut year on year due to flattening or convergence of farm payments. This sees higher than average per-hectare payments cut to fund the increase in lower than average payments.
Bucking the trend
Some big recipients are gaining payment increases, bucking the trend. Closer inspection reveals them to be farms with a significant level of vegetables.
Vegetable, potato and fruit crops never received direct coupled payments, and therefore no decoupled single farm payments under the Fischler reforms, and growers of these crops are therefore gaining under convergence.
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The publication of CAP payments to residents of Dublin city always throws up interesting cases. My favourite this year is Woodhouse Property Ltd, the Irish branch of a Hong Kong-registered company drawing €21,371 in combined BPS and ANC payments from an industrial estate in Finglas. The company has a registered representative in Co Roscommon, so I suspect that’s where the land is farmed.
Allsworth Estates Ltd’s €21,339 BPS payment to its address at a five-star hotel in Ballsbridge also caught my eye. The company’s directors reside in London and in the Isle of Man – maybe that’s where they farm.
Department records do not specify whether company director Gerard Dillon is the person of the same name claiming another €168,901 in BPS and ANC payments
AP Dillon & Co Ltd, a sister company to Moyvalley Meats and the Dillon family’s live exports business, received €61,905 in BPS and ANC payments. Its address on the city’s north quays is no doubt an office base for the family’s farming interests on the Kildare-Meath border. Department records do not specify whether company director Gerard Dillon is the person of the same name claiming another €168,901 in BPS and ANC payments, also out of Dublin’s north inner city.
And what to say about the rest of the country?
Keen CAP payment watchers will be surprised to see the name of the Representatives of Nicholas Furlong at the head of the payments table. This beneficiary received no payment whatsoever in the previous year. It must be remembered that the CAP payments indicate how much money was paid out in a given year. It does not indicate what years that money was paid out for.
Most high beneficiaries are seeing their payments cut year on year due to flattening or convergence of farm payments
The €323,292 received in the EU financial year of 2018 (from 16 October 2017 to 15 October 2018) may well have been due for an accumulation of years; indeed it must be so.
As recounted by Barry Cassidy, horse breeders and beef barons continue to feature prominently among CAP beneficiaries.
The Goodman, Queally, Al Maktoum and Magnier clans all feature. Most high beneficiaries are seeing their payments cut year on year due to flattening or convergence of farm payments. This sees higher than average per-hectare payments cut to fund the increase in lower than average payments.
Bucking the trend
Some big recipients are gaining payment increases, bucking the trend. Closer inspection reveals them to be farms with a significant level of vegetables.
Vegetable, potato and fruit crops never received direct coupled payments, and therefore no decoupled single farm payments under the Fischler reforms, and growers of these crops are therefore gaining under convergence.
Read more
Sheikh gains, while beef barons take a hit
Where does Ireland’s €1.2bn in direct payments go?
CAFRE tops Northern Ireland CAP list
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