Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach also leads those discussions. As such, he can ensure the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine gets the money. Rather than telling us he intends to try and all the rest of it, perhaps the Minister will say whether it is the position of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform that he will match the European funding provided, regardless of the amount involved.

I accept what the Minister had to say in regard to the multi-annual financial framework. What I asked, however, was whether the Minister can assure the House that if Ireland is in the chair at the time of the negotiations on the multi-annual financial framework, the decisions in regard to pillar 1 and pillar 2 will be made at the same time. In other words, there will be no conclusion of the negotiations on pillar 1 until such time as the situation in relation to pillar 2 has been clarified.

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