Organisation: Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Taxpayer bill for land eligibility justified

Children’s toys found on farms were part of the evidence on which the European Commission based their move in 2014 to fine Ireland €181 million for five years of ineligible land payment claims.

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BVD and BDGP calf tissue tagging ruled out

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99% paid up in milk superlevy instalments

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'Nod and wink' pay culture in hospitals, says HSE chief

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Local action groups face fund cuts if they don’t improve

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Farmers with second job targeted by Revenue

Farm waste management grants backlog due to ‘huge delays’ in securing planning

SOME Connemara sheep farmers who applied for farm waste management scheme grants in 2006 didn’t get planning permission for the buildings until September or October, 2008 — less than three months before the deadline to have all construction and grant applications completed.

Thu, 19 Feb, 2009

No Single Payment up to July for over 900

SEVERAL hundred farmers are awaiting about €4 million in 2005 single payments, Department of Agriculture and Food Secretary General Tom Moran has told the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts.

Thu, 30 Nov, 2006

New payment scheme means 400 staff are surplus to requirements

THE Department of Agriculture and Food introduced the single farm payment scheme on time and ahead of any other member state of the EU - while also managing to re-allocate 180 of its staff to other parts of the public service.

Thu, 20 Apr, 2006

SWS gets seal of approval

KEEPING track of the country's cattle has become a €5.5 million per year business for a west Cork company.

Thu, 20 Apr, 2006

State workers paid €1.8m for remaining idle

A GROUP of former milk board employees, who remained work idle, were paid nearly €2 million by the Department of Agriculture over a seven-year period, it emerged yesterday.

Fri, 31 Mar, 2006

Ex-milk board employees paid €1.8m for doing nothing

A group of former milk board employees were paid for doing nothing by the Department of Agriculture over a seven-year period, it emerged today.

Thu, 30 Mar, 2006