Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

No. The House needs to have a debate on the EU agricultural talks and this needs to happen this week. It is not good enough to suggest that a discussion can take place after the negotiations are over. We need to hear from the Minister as to why he has adopted an approach to those negotiations that will disadvantage the majority of Irish farmers.

Unfortunately, we are dealing with this in the context of the Government having agreed to an EU budget that will see Irish contributions increase by up to €1 billion per year-----

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