Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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This brings me back to an earlier answer. There are so many moving parts here. As to speculating about whether the final MFF will be a certain structure or a different structure and what the Government response to that would be, we are still very far away from that. I assure the Deputy that the Government, including the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance, is determined to fight as hard as we can for the existing structure with two pillars and a single fund. I am on the record articulating my concern around the re-nationalisation of agriculture spending and the undermining of the CAP. That is our first focus as part of the MFF. We will engage with Commissioner Hansen to try to do that and work across government to make that happen. There will be a point in the future when I will have to make key decisions on what a new CAP will look like. I will do so in consultation with the committee and there will be plenty of debates on that in the future.