Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)

One of the key things is the point made regarding the cut in the CAP. We were in Brussels last week and we put it to the Commissioner that there is a breakdown in trust between the agricultural sector and the European Union. That trust needs to be restored. If it continues to cut away at the CAP budget and to introduce trade deals like Mercosur, which undermine agriculture across all of Europe, then it will lose that trust. If we start to lose trust in the agricultural sector, and we have seen it happen in other countries, such as in Holland and with Brexit, that is very dangerous for the future. The European Union has a job to do to ensure it maintains that trust and the best way it can do that in an Irish context is to ensure it supports the agricultural sector, which is our biggest industry.