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

I hope, when it comes to the reply, that the Minister skips the usual bumf that is put in the beginning and cuts to the meat speedily. I have a quick question. The Minister knows that the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, has been announced and that Pillar 2, under which the money for rural development outside the farm gate comes from, is proposed to be cut radically. Has the Minister started early negotiations with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to ensure that this does not have a huge knock-on impact on the Leader programme? It is well down already-----

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