Each late GLAS, AEOS cheque ‘eyeballed’

Agriculture Minister Michael Creed has revealed his department staff have to ”eyeball” each of the more than 11,000 cases where GLAS and AEOS payments are held up.

“We have to identify the reason each payment did not go through and then find IT solutions to enable payments to go through,” said the minister.

He added: “It is neither an administrative resource issue nor an IT resource issue. We simply have to eyeball each of the individual applications that are presented as a challenge to get them through our system.”