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

For the next programme there could again be two years added on at the end, and the spend could be as low as €3.1 billion. Will the Minister accept that it was very poor negotiation on his behalf, as President of the European Council, to allow such low co-funding from member states? This is the particularly the case when we take into account the fact that Pillar 1 is much larger and does not require any co-funding, and when we look at the multiplier effect in the rural economy of spending on agriculture.

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