Sinn Féin is urging for an independent review body to be set up for farmers who are being asked to pay back basic payments as a result of unclear criteria for land eligibility.

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The party's spokesperson on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Ferris TD, said an independent review body needs to draw up proper, fair and clear criteria for farmers.

He said: "The government concession now that there were problems with the criteria surely points to the need for an amnesty and the need for clarity from here on."

(CD/JP)