Minister Coughlan announces the issue of 140 Annual Payment Statements to Farmers for 2006

Minister Coughlan announced today that almost 140,000 Annual Payment Statements for the year 2006 would issue to farmers around the country over the next few days.

The Minister said that the Statement gives details to each farmer of all payments made to him/her by the Department during the period 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2006. The total value of the payments recorded on the Statements is in excess of €2 billion.

She added that the Payment Statement has proven in previous years to be a very useful document and asked that farmers retain the Statement carefully for future reference.

22 February 2007

Date Released: 22 February 2007