Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:30 pm

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

People will be invited to that event next week and will be allowed to speak. There will be two people from the Commission who will go through the regulations in detail and we will then break the meeting into a number of discussion groups. We will have a rapporteur for the meeting and the discussion from various stakeholders. There will not be any effort to spew conclusions or anything like that but rather reporting what people had to say about these regulations. Negotiation is ongoing and if it is to happen in the ambitious timeframe proposed by the Commission, we will all have to move pretty fast. With the committee's contribution, it would be the sooner, the better. There are two separate matters. The first is how we look at this regulation and making sure it allows us to do the kinds of things we want. The second question is what we want to do. It is a more in-depth policy discussion for some time in the near future. It is kind of a separate exercise.

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