No Single Payment up to July for over 900

SEVERAL hundred farmers are awaiting about €4 million in 2005 single payments, Department of Agriculture and Food Secretary General Tom Moran has told the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts.

“We are dealing with complex difficulties, such as questions of landownership, disputes or transfers”, he said.

He revealed Department officials have visited those who haven’t made claims and encouraged them to send applications.