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 [...]
In an initial response to the Budget, IFA President Padraig Walshe stated that, at a time when farm income has fallen by 30%, the introduction of a Carbon Tax and the lack of clarity on adequate funding for a new REPS scheme must be addressed if farm incomes are not to be hit further in [...]
Anger is surging through the Irish farming community. Anger at falling prices for their produce, falling subsidies from the state and the EU and, now, further threats to programmes such as the Rural Environmental Protection Scheme (Reps), grants from which give support to so many struggling farms. The thousands of farmers who descended on Cavan [...]
IFA Rural Development Chairman, Tom Turley, said that an IFA national analysis of REPS planning fees show a significant variation, and lower fees must now apply given the economic realities and the 17% reduction in REPS payments.
Teagasc and private planners must contribute to the lower cost of compliance given the reduction in payments.
Tom Turley said [...]
This weeks Budget did not address the need to improve the economy’s competitiveness by at least 20%. The burden on the productive and private sectors of dealing with the country’s serious financial deficit has increased to a disproportionate and unfair level. Unless the Government now takes action on the cost of doing business in this [...]
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mary Coughlan
T.D., announced today that over 141,000 Annual Payment
Statements for the year 2007 will issue to farmers around the
country over the next few days. The Minister said that the Statement gives
details to each farmer of all payments made to him/her by the Department during
the period 1st January 2007 [...]
