Ireland is a single payment region on paper. However, the convergence process will not be completed by 2019 (the Department commitment is that no-one will have a payment rate below 60% of the 2019 national average by that time) and payment rates over the national average will only be reduced by the level necessary to fund the uplift in payments for those below it (the exception is that there will be a maximum rate of €700/ha). We have been unable to find any statement that it is the goal of policy to reach a single national payment rate by some specific date.