163 complaints around agriculture made to Ombudsman last year
The Ombudsman received a total of 163 complaints about the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine from farmers across the country in 2020. Picture: David Creedon/Anzenberger.
A farmer who complained to the Ombudsman last year after the Department of Agriculture expelled him from GLAS was allowed back in after it was found that the Department had imposed the wrong penalty on him.
One of the criteria for receiving payments under the scheme is a requirement to spread slurry by low emissions equipment, and in the first year of the scheme, the man spread slurry but did not submit the relevant annual return.
