Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Six-monthly Report on Developments in EU: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

2:55 pm

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The broad thrust of the Pillar 1 schemes has been agreed. The money is in play, depending on the co-funding. On Pillar 2 if there is an upland environment scheme, an agri-environmental options scheme, AEOS, young farmers package or anything else, it will have to be agreed how such schemes will be structured. The money is still in play. There is €313 million from Pillar 2 that still has to be negotiated. The whole package has to be approved with a series of schemes proposed for Pillar 2 that have to be agreed. There can be a robust political debate on that, if it is not up to everybody's satisfaction, which will be 47% or more. If that is not in place, there will be an argument about that internally, but that does not affect Europe's approval of the CAP. Is that correct? The exception is Pillar 2 and Pillar 1 interchange, if that were to happen.

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