Dáil debates
Thursday, 11 November 2010
EU Sugar Market Reform: Statements
6:00 pm
Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
Paragraph 91 of the auditors' report states that, although designed to be budget neutral, significant costs have arisen. The sugar reform was designed to be budget neutral, but the overall cost to the EU budget after the reform for the period 2007–13, which we are half-way through, is likely to be €1.2 billion higher than before the reform. Therefore, it has failed. It has not achieved its objectives for the consumer, the developing world producer or the Irish economy.
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