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ICSA beef chair Edmund Graham has said the conditionality attached to BEAM monies was so flawed that the Department of Agriculture must revisit every aspect of the scheme. \u201cBEAM stands for Beef Exceptional Aid Measure; as the full title indicates it was exceptional aid – <\/em>which was secured to help beef farmers who had suffered horrendous losses during the winter of 2018 and going in to 2019. It should have been distributed quickly and painlessly to those who needed it most. Instead, what we got is a scheme that will see perhaps over \u20ac19 million in penalties, or 25% of the money that was originally applied for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDue to the difficulties in meeting the conditionality targets set in BEAM, around 10,500 farmers deferred the period in which they needed to reduce the amount of bovine livestock manure nitrogen produced by 5%. Those farmers are now approaching their 31 December 2021 deadline for achieving this. However, figures from the Department of Agriculture indicate that 8,300 of these farmers are set to miss the target. This means that these 8,300 farmers face having to repay some or all of this exceptional aid in the new year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFarmers accept that conditionality is part and parcel of most schemes, in that you must meet certain requirements to get paid. That is fair enough, but aid money given to farmers in response to a crisis should never have been weighed down with conditionality that that was so cumbersome and difficult to achieve \u2013 mainly down to delays in getting accurate figures from the Department.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt must also be remembered that BEAM was looked for and secured in 2019, but the timeframe to meet the targets coincided with the arrival of a global pandemic. Lockdowns, restrictions, and mart closures all had an impact on the day to day functioning of every farming enterprise. It also seriously impacted farmers\u2019 ability to meet the BEAM requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlready we have had BEAM monies taken back from farmers who did not opt to defer and were unable to meet the target, and now the prospect of adding another 8,000 farmers to their number is looming. It is unconscionable that the Department will seek to recoup approximately \u20ac14.5m from hard pressed beef farmers come the spring. This is on top of \u20ac5.2 million already recouped from farmers who did not meet the original targets for the period ending 30 June 2021, and who did not defer.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, we are looking at a situation where a scheme which was originally meant to deliver exceptional aid of \u20ac100 million, may actually end up delivering barely more than half the original target. By any key performance indicator, this is a disastrous outcome when the original objective was to deliver \u20ac100 million in badly needed aid to beef farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is now incumbent on the Department of Agriculture to review BEAM in its entirety. A solution must be found that allows farmers to retain as much of this aid as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ICSA beef chair Edmund Graham has said the conditionality attached to BEAM monies was so flawed that the Department of Agriculture must revisit every aspect of the scheme. \u201cBEAM stands for Beef Exceptional Aid Measure; as the full title indicates it was exceptional aid – which was secured to help beef farmers who had suffered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[298,299,290,70,116],"yoast_head":"\nEVERY ASPECT OF BEAM SCHEME MUST BE REVIEWED AS THOUSANDS SET TO BE PENALISED - ICSA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We are looking at a situation where a scheme which was originally meant to deliver exceptional aid of \u20ac100 million, may actually end up delivering barely more than half the original target. 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