Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 January 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

1:15 pm

Photo of Ciarán LynchCiarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Would it be a fair assessment to say future MFF arrangements, and certainly the one in question, point towards what might be described as two-tier funding? I refer to ring-fenced, determined funding such as CAP and cohesion funding and funding under Horizon 2020 and other modern initiatives that are operated on a per-application basis among competing countries across Europe. Is this Ms Campbell's observation on the future funding trend?