Martin Heydon: “Many farm organisations also called for flexibilities on a range of measures, which will be kept under review.”

The current situation is adding costs on affected farms and I would encourage farmers to engage with their banks, merchants and coops on any cash flow concerns.

My department administers €1.6 billion worth of payments over the course of the next four months that farmers expect at a certain set time for the different activities that they're carrying out. And I can't do anything to undermine the…

We have seen a strong response to the Fuel Income Support Scheme among farmers and contractors to date including a large number of applications received over the weekend and the past two days.

The decision taken today by the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste and Minister Canney, which will be confirmed by the Dáil next week is to pause those reinstatements for the first of September and first of October due to the ongoing geopolitical…