Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Reform of Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy: Discussion with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

9:55 am

Photo of Martin FerrisMartin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein)
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From a low base, but this is to be welcomed. The Minister also mentioned flexibility in coupling. Will he elaborate? No one wants people to get money for nothing. There was a gap, in that it was not just the small, weak farmer who availed of it. Reasonable coupling should be considered.