Farm subsidy payments should not have been published on website
23 June 2005
“Individual CAP subsidies paid to farmers should not have been published on the DARD website.” These were the comments made by Jim Allister MEP following today’s announcement from DARD that they were putting details of CAP payments made to farmers on their website.
Mr Allister commented, “I believe that this move by DARD is an infringement of farmers’ privacy within
“If the DHSS published the amount of money individual people were getting from benefits I have no doubt there would be a public outcry. There are no more legitimate or stronger reasons for publishing the payments made by DARD to individuals compared to other Departments such as the DHSS.”
