Single payments to start

GOOD progress continues to be made on processing single payment scheme applications, according to Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan.

She said she was confident the major part of the €1.26 billion single payment for 2005 would be issued to farmers in December.

Payments will commence on December 1 in processed cases, with further payments still being made throughout that month as the department deals with responses to queries it has raised on individual applications.