Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Where something stays static it means it is not increasing in value with what is happening in the wider economy. That is a fact. As Deputy Carthy knows there are choices to be made when a CAP strategic plan is being put together. I have increased the national funding for pillar 2 for the next CAP by 50%. It has been increased by 50% overall. We could have put more of this into ANC but then there would have been less for other schemes. Overall when we take all of the pillar 2 schemes they have increased by 50% in funding, for example, the beef scheme and the agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, which are very important. This was a choice as the Deputy knows. I consulted very broadly and widely on putting this CAP plan together to try to get as balanced a CAP as possible. There are schemes we would like to be able to do more on if we had more funding. When we got the funding, which saw the highest increase we ever had for a CAP plan, we had to decide how best we thought we could make it work for the sector. This is the profile in relation to-----