AEOS payment delays a mark of failure

On Morning Ireland last week Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said that his department was working on overdrive to get REPS and AEOS payments out to farmers to alleviate serious cash flow on farms.

This is the current up-to-date information on payments as of May 1: In last year’s budget a certain amount of money was allocated to fund a new AEOS (3) scheme for up to 6,000 farmers. Applications were lodged prior to Christmas 2012.

As of May 1 the department hasn’t even paid out one single farmer under that new scheme and hasn’t even informed one single farmer as to whether or not they have been accepted into the scheme.