Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

I am prohibited from being definitive on the basis that I have not received the legal text. The question asked in the context of the political agreement prior to the decision of the Council in December was whether the sugar company has to pay a levy in the year it renounces the quota and the answer was no. The implication of that must be finalised in the legal texts. Political agreement will be reached in February. Unfortunately, I cannot give a definitive reply on these issues until 20 and 21 February.

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