Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government contains a line outlining the Government's commitment on CAP funding and basic payments in the coming years. On foot of parliamentary questions asked by my colleagues last week, there seems to be a line in the programme for Government that the State may consider appealing the ruling of the High Court a number of weeks ago that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine acted unlawfully in inspecting farms. I presume the Government has no intention of taking this matter to the Supreme Court because it would be a retrograde step. It is time it recognised what was said in the High Court.

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