SF would limit SFP to €100,000

Sinn Féin wants to make corporations ineligible for the single farm payment, and proposes to limit the amount an individual can claim at €100,000.

“Statistics show that in 2011, just 243 of the more than 123,000 Irish recipients of the payment received over €100,000, yet that accounts for a significant proportion of the payments that come to Ireland. We believe that those funds could be better used in supporting small to medium active producers,” Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh said in the recent Seanad Éireann debate on the EU’s CAP.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney told the Seanad that how member states distribute CAP direct payments such as the single farm payment within their jurisdictions is a red-line issue for him in CAP reform negotiations.