REPS payments to Kerry farmers to resume without delay - O’Donoghue

REPS payments to Kerry farmers are set to resume without delay, Kerry South TD John O’Donoghue has learned. Staff shortages in the Department of Agriculture had resulted in payments to some Kerry farmers being held up, however Deputy O’Donoghue has been informed that the Department has resolved this issue.

“This is very good news for farmers throughout Kerry and will come as a great relief to them,” said Deputy O’Donoghue. “For too long their payments have been held up and they have had to wait for the bureaucratic logjam to resolve itself. This was a great inconvenience to the farmers and made life very difficult for many of them and their families due to the financial hardship it caused.”

“However I have been informed by Minister Brendan Smith, following prolonged representations of the strongest nature to him, that the Department of Agriculture has now put arrangements in place to get around this problem and the REPS payments will now proceed without delay to Kerry farmers. I know that the farming community throughout Kerry has been waiting to hear this news so I was delighted to be able to pass this information on as soon as I received it.”

“I hope that we will start to see these payments in the hands of the farmers who deserve them in a matter of days,” Deputy O’Donoghue concluded.