Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I had contact with Mr. Mark Durkan, MP, the other day in respect of Committee Stage of the Bill in the House of Commons. He made the point that we needed to look at the implementation bodies that were set up under the Good Friday Agreement because they were predicated on the dispensing and disbursal of European funding under various headings - INTERREG, PEACE funds and so on. There is €3 billion there out to 2020, as the Deputy is aware. The MP intends to table amendments on Committee Stage in the Bill in the House of Commons reflecting that.

We have to devise possibly a new structure here in respect of what is going to happen when CAP dries up. Who will deal with the subsidies there? When Britain stops payments into the European Union budget, are these subsidies to be reduced? How do we regulate the payments through INTERREG and PEACE funding? These are subject to many of the sectoral committees that we are now engaged in, which will come to a head again on 17 February when we have another all-island forum dealing with a whole range of sectoral issues where options have been put forward by voices from business and different sectors that are very useful for us as we prepare.

There will be another question, I am sure, a Cheann Comhairle.

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