More than 100,000 online BPS applications

Even for the experts in Teagasc, the Basic Payment Scheme applications were not plain sailing.

Teagasc completed more than 40,000 Basic Payment Scheme applications on behalf of farmer clients this year, and 39,000 of these were done on-line.

But Dermot McCarthy, Head of Teagasc Advisory Services, said they had a slow start, before the on-line system worked well, and all clients were eventually processed within last Monday’s deadline.