Ms Kata Tütt:

This is why I wanted to bring this issue here now because this is the proposal. The proposal is that agricultural funding be disconnected from Brussels and given to the national governments in a closed bag together with all the other priorities of social, territorial and economic cohesion, fisheries, maritime, border control and migration. It is a closed bag that in the end means less money. The only way to prevent this is by bringing this issue to national parliaments and pushing governments to reject this thinking framework of the European Commission disconnecting from agriculture and the rural and urban because that is the proposal. The proposal is that it only wants to focus on investing in defence, big companies, AI, supercomputers and data centres in the name of competitiveness, all of which is very true. However, it all at the expense of agriculture and social, territorial and economic cohesion. This year is the only time window to reject this thinking framework. I ask the committee to bring it to the attention of the Irish Government.