Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Food Harvest 2020: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

4:45 pm

Mr. Tom Moran:

It would be easier to do that under pillar 1 than under pillar 2, which is a five-year programme - that would get complicated - but, equally, we would want to make sure that the Heads of Government had signed off on a MFF to make sure there is sufficient money to roll it on. However, as footballers would say, we are not contemplating that. I presume we will be back before the committee in the earlier part of next year and we will have a better perspective on this.