'Number of months' wait for forgotten farmer supports
'Forgotten farmers' are those who lost out following the removal of young farmer supports such as Installation Aid due to cuts in public expenditure by the Government following the last recession.
It will be a "number of more months" before supports are brought forward for the cohort of 'forgotten farmers'.
Providing no clear timeline, Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue said that he is "committed to supporting those farmers who find themselves in this situation, through no fault of their own in many cases, and I have committed to addressing this issue".
