Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I thank the witnesses for coming in. I also thank those who are joining us online. My first question is to all of the witnesses. We talk about CAP as if we have to do X, Y and Z environmentally. In fairness, many farmers are doing things. Years ago the purpose of the CAP negotiations was to bring down the price the farmer was getting for the food he or she was producing but it was subsidised so that the people in the cities and other areas who could not afford it would be able to afford it? Do the witnesses recognise that was the reason CAP was introduced in the first instance, that it was not about the extras that have been added to it over the years? I presume they would agree with that.

It is a while since I last met Ms Duggan. Birds migrate and come back to Ireland. Of the species in this country, what percentage migrate and come back?