On Senator Catherine Ardagh's comments on Rebuilding Ireland, I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, at a meeting of which this morning we were given comprehensive statistics for a range of measures in the context of that document. In fairness, the Minister has set targets and timelines, which is brave in the context of any programme, but I am not here to make a case for him. I have been critical of him many times at the joint committee, but he is delivering.

I would like to raise with the Leader the issue of GLAS payments for farmers. I was elected to the Agricultural Panel. In that regard, I have received a number of e-mails and telephone calls about an article that appeared last week in the Irish Farmers' Journal on late payments under GLAS, something of which I am sure many Members are aware. Farmers are spending on the basis of payments owed to them under the EU-Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's GLAS 1 and GLAS 2. Late payments are impacting on their cash flow. They are borrowing from the banks on the strength of these payments. I am speaking not about large amounts but small sums of money, ranging from approximately €300 to €7,000, but any amount is large when one does not have money, particularly at times when farmers are hard-pressed. This is a key issue. Farmers who signed up to GLAS 1 signed up to a range of conditions and commitments in regard to soil nutrients, the GLAS plan, the management plan and the camouflage and other environmental initiatives. They have done what they were required to do and now want their payments. They kept to their side of the bargain and have delivered in accordance with the terms and conditions set down in GLAS 1 and GLAS 2. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine stated on a number of programmes last week and in a one-to-one interview with the Irish Farmers' Journal that he could not be sure when the payments would be made. I understand there are complications in the scheme. However, where people have entered into an EU scheme, administered on their behalf by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and have complied with the terms of the scheme, as farmers have done, they should not have to wait for their payments. Will the Leader ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to come to the Seanad at his convenience to outline how he proposes to address the issues arising with this scheme. The farmers' charter of rights, 2015 to 2020, to which the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is a party, sets out the terms of the scheme and the terms of payment and what can reasonably be expected by the farmers and participating agricultural organisations involved in GLAS 1 and GLAS 2. This is a crisis; it is about cash flow for farmers. Something needs to be done. It is important that the Minister come to the House soon to explain what is happening. I am not interested in hearing about further delays or excuses for the current delays. I am speaking on behalf of the farming community, particularly small farmers to whom €4,000, €5,000 or €6,000 is a lot of money. I want the Minister to come to the House to outline how he proposes to ensure the payments will be made.

I second Senator Victor Boyhan's proposal that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine be asked to come to the House to discuss the issue of GLAS payments.

The GLAS files were submitted to the Department in May and December 2015, but payment is still awaited. I raised this issue in January. It is not acceptable that we are being told at this late stage that the computer is not compatible with the task it needs to perform.

I rise to discuss a matter of which every Senator is aware. Everyone will be disappointed for the family of Pat Finucane following the decision of the Belfast High Court this morning to reject the family's appeal for an international inquiry into his killing. The Finucanes, led by Pat's wife, Geraldine, have been campaigning for the truth about his killing for nearly 30 years. It was one of the starkest examples of collusion between British Crown forces and loyalist paramilitaries. It was a high-profile killing at the time and has remained so for the past 28 years, not just because Pat was a human rights solicitor, but because of the scale of the collusion involved in his killing. Thanks to the determination of the Finucanes and many hundreds of other families, we now know that collusion was a routine and standard method used by the British Government's armed forces to kill hundreds of people.

The court's decision is disgraceful. It is also a reminder of the absence of justice at the heart of the judicial system for those who suffered greatly, and still do, at the hands of the British Crown forces. I urge the Irish Government to continue its efforts to pressurise the British Government to co-operate and set up an inquiry into Pat's killing.

I commend the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Flanagan, on accepting an invitation to speak at a memorial lecture dedicated to the memory of Pat Finucane this Thursday evening in Belfast.

There will be statements on education in the Chamber today. I wish to raise the case of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT. Its multidisciplinary Mayo campus is successful and has offered a range of business, technology, construction, nursing, child care and social care programmes to many who would not otherwise have had access to education. It is my firm belief that there has been a sustained and targeted agenda to dilute and diminish the programmes available through the Mayo campus. The strategic neglect of that campus, including delays in decision making around long-term management and programme development, has angered many people in Mayo. It is not acceptable-----

This would be more appropriate to the debate when the Minister is present.