Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Philip Carroll:

It is €50,000 per house apparently. We all also know that there are subsidies available for migration from diesel to electric cars. However, nobody is mentioning subsidies for the agrifood sector. That is a critical point. We agree with all of the farm organisations on the direction of travel as far as CAP is concerned. We are concerned that there are two potential cuts to the CAP budget, namely, a 5% linear cut, which seems to be settled on, and the loss of the €6 billion that will result from the departure of the UK and how that will be made good. The latter will have a cascading effect on other areas, including the support package that might be available in respect of greening, GLAS, BDGP and other schemes. These are all critical schemes.

The Chairman raised a question about market access. I will ask my colleague, Mr. Ryan, to deal with that issue.