Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is the person who negotiated the regulation. I cite the example of a young farmer who is 32 years of age who has a payment per hectare of €100 because historically more than ten years ago the farm was not farmed as extensively as it is now. That farmer - there are many of them - is considering whether he or she can continue to have a future in farming. Such farmers thought that the Common Agricultural Policy reform proposals would offer them a fair deal, in that, because they are now the persons who are farming they would have the opportunity, based on what they are doing at present, to get a fairer deal and have a viable future in the industry. The Minister has not given them a categorisation which would see them benefit or give them a viable future.

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