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This report reviews the forestry programme and its targets, and examines the outputs to date. Up to the end of 2018, there has been a consistent underspend on the Department’s forestry programme. Targets set in relation to the amount of land forested and the proportion that is broadleaf under the programme have not been met.

This chapter examines a refund from Ireland to the EU in 2015 for non-compliance with EAGF and EAFRD scheme regulations. The payment to the EU in 2015 as a result of Irish milk production exceeding the national milk quota, and the recovery of those funds from milk producers.

This report sets out to ascertain whether the risk methodology used by the Department is effective in profiling the farming population in a way that ensures the efficiency of inspection by focussing on the most risky cases; whether the structure and organisation of the inspection programme is sufficient to put a check on the full range of criteria taking account of timing of the underlying conditions and whether the operation of the Department’s Integrated Controls Division is cost effective in the light of the pattern of inspection activity and how the Department addressed the issues that led to an EU penalty of €715,000 being imposed.

This is a report on the Farm Waste Management Scheme Liabilities, examining the liabilities and commitments under the scheme at 31 December 2008 and the arrangements for controlling expenditure under this scheme.

This is a report on the Farm Improvement Scheme, examining the Scheme Structure, Commitments and Administration

This is a report on the FEOGA grants scheme, covering controls over collection of debts and collection of land annuities.

This is a report on the procurement of a new accounts system, the FEOGA Grant Operations, collection of Grant Overpayments and Grant Disallowances by the EU Commission.

The Department of Agriculture and Food (the Department) administers a range of annual grant schemes for farmers producing livestock (mainly cattle and sheep) and certain tillage crops. Most of the funding for the schemes is provided by the European Union (EU) which specifies the rates of payment and rules about eligibility and how the schemes are to be administered. By the end of June 1998, a total of £786 million had been paid out in respect of 543,000 applications made under the 1997 schemes. Grant payments now amount to almost half of the aggregate income from farming.

This is a report on the FEOGA grants scheme, covering controls over Area Aid, Disallowances by the EU Commission, and Irregularities found.

This is a report on Disallowances by EU Commission of FEOGA grant ,the administration of Premia/Headage and Arable Aid Schemes, Controls over Cattle Identification, Land Parcel Identification System and Overlapping of Land on the system, Computerised and Manual Payments, Duplicate Payments, Collection of Land Annuities and the Collection of Bog Rents.