To date, 43,932 GLAS participants have received their 2018 advance payment and are fully up to date with their payments. There were 49,100 GLAS participants at the end of December 2018. This means 5,168 applicants have not yet received payment.
“In relation to outstanding 2018 payments, a significant proportion relate to applicants who have not yet fulfilled the requirements for payment,” Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed said in response to a parliamentary question from Fianna Fáil spokesperson for agriculture Charlie McConologue.
Non-compliances include the non-submission of commonage management plans and nutrient management plans, GLAS 1 and 2 cases where the mandatory GLAS training has not been completed, low-emission slurry spreading and rare breeds forms not returned or cases where the GLAS participant has omitted to update the Department on issues crucial to the payment process.
GLAS Plus payments have also been paid to 2,928 GLAS farmers. This amounts to over €158m paid since 2018 payments commenced on 14 November.
“My Department is working closely with GLAS farmers, their advisers and commonage framework plan advisers to ensure that payments issue to compliant farmers as quickly as possible,” Minister Creed said.
Fianna Fáil's Charlie McConologue said “it is concerning that we still have 5,000 GLAS participants of the 49,000 that haven’t received payments. I know there are a number of reasons for this but the Department must be clear in contacting those farmers so that they can act on it. This has been a particularly difficult year for farmers income wise. GLAS is essential to that and so every effort must be made by the Department to get advance payments out.”
Advance 2018 payments to date are as follows:
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To date, 43,932 GLAS participants have received their 2018 advance payment and are fully up to date with their payments. There were 49,100 GLAS participants at the end of December 2018. This means 5,168 applicants have not yet received payment.
“In relation to outstanding 2018 payments, a significant proportion relate to applicants who have not yet fulfilled the requirements for payment,” Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed said in response to a parliamentary question from Fianna Fáil spokesperson for agriculture Charlie McConologue.
Non-compliances include the non-submission of commonage management plans and nutrient management plans, GLAS 1 and 2 cases where the mandatory GLAS training has not been completed, low-emission slurry spreading and rare breeds forms not returned or cases where the GLAS participant has omitted to update the Department on issues crucial to the payment process.
GLAS Plus payments have also been paid to 2,928 GLAS farmers. This amounts to over €158m paid since 2018 payments commenced on 14 November.
“My Department is working closely with GLAS farmers, their advisers and commonage framework plan advisers to ensure that payments issue to compliant farmers as quickly as possible,” Minister Creed said.
Fianna Fáil's Charlie McConologue said “it is concerning that we still have 5,000 GLAS participants of the 49,000 that haven’t received payments. I know there are a number of reasons for this but the Department must be clear in contacting those farmers so that they can act on it. This has been a particularly difficult year for farmers income wise. GLAS is essential to that and so every effort must be made by the Department to get advance payments out.”
Advance 2018 payments to date are as follows:
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Nine-month CAP countdown begins
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