Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As Deputy Ó Cuív knows, that will be a matter for the Department of Finance and the Government to negotiate with Commissioner Hogan. I know that the committee had him in here recently. My own views on it are that the programmes that have come from Europe, the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, programme in particular, have been very good. They are programmes that have kept rural Ireland alive and the funding is very badly wanted. We will have to wait and see what will happen with the Brexit negotiations. We will have to wait and see what the Department of Finance will be able to negotiate with Europe. That is not really in my area. That will be a matter for the Department of Finance. I can only deal with the programmes I have myself and we will be starting that budgetary process in the near future.