Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----he would have seen I have delivered a CAP programme which has increased by 50% the funding we are giving to farms, and we are directing that particularly at smaller and medium-sized farms. For example, I have introduced front-loading of the payments that farmers get in respect of the first 32 ha. We are reallocating funding specifically to smaller and medium-sized farmers to encourage farmers to stay in farming. The Deputy has probably not picked this up either but I have also reduced the maximum payment that any one farmer can get in CAP payments from what would have been over €150,000 in the outgoing CAP to €66,000 now under this CAP. No farmer at the conclusion of this CAP will be able to get a payment of more than €66,000. This is because we want to back and sustain what we have in this country which is family farming and which the Deputy, in his portrayal, constantly tries to misrepresent and do a total disservice to.

See this speech in context