Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
10:00 am
Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:
Yes, we would still genuinely regard the achievement in terms of CAP reform as being very significant. I will mention just two aspects. One is the confirmation of the abolition of milk quotas which was fought for right up to the end of the negotiations, and the abolition of sugar quota at the same time. That is significant. The other is the defence of our huge transfers. If one looks at the transfers to Ireland in agriculture and compares them with those in other countries, we are completely at one end of the spectrum.
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