O’Donovan “€29.3m paid by Department of Agriculture to Limerick farmers”

Added November 11th, 2013

Fine Gael TD for Limerick, Patrick O’Donovan has welcomed the fact that over 93% of Single Farm Payments and over 80% of disadvantaged area payments have been paid so far this year. The Department of Agriculture have paid €24.824 million to Limerick farmers under the single farm payment scheme out of a national of €582 million. In the disadvantaged area scheme €4.5million has been paid to Limerick farmers from a national fund of €175 million.

Patrick O’Donovan said that the payments from the Department of Agriculture were key to ensuring that Ireland is able to continue to produce food at the highest quality, and that the standards that are present inside and outside the Irish farm gate are the best in the world.

The Limerick TD paid tribute to the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney for his commitment to Irish Farming and the Irish Food Industry. “It is clear that this Minister has his finger on the pulse of rural Ireland and the support he has received from Limerick’s Minister, Michael Noonan has been critical to ensuring that Agriculture has a central place in our national recovery.”

Patrick O’Donovan said that he would continue to work with the farming organisations and their representatives in Limerick, to make representations on behalf of Co. Limerick farmers to the Minister to ensure that the emphasis on farming is not allowed to slip backwards.