ICSA rural development chairman and president elect Gabriel Gilmartin has expressed extreme frustration that REPS 4 farmers still haven't received payment. "In some cases, farmers who have not even been told whether they have been accepted into REPS 4 are now being subjected to sudden on the spot inspections. It is not right to inspect [...]
Department Inspectors are conducting on farm inspections through the country, Farmers who have received inspection are reporting thorough inspections and many are been penalised,
ICSA suckler chairman Brendan McLaughlin has said today that on farm
inspections are getting totally out of hand. He said “there is a level of
detail required that drags the whole process out to a ridiculous extent.
Many inspections on relatively small and well-managed farms are taking
nearly a full day. This cannot be justified and it is time [...]
