Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Building on that, we have created a new Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, that will deliver €10 billion for the farm families of Ireland. We have delivered a 50% increase in Pillar 2 funding for CAP supports. We are delivering an agri-environmental scheme that will give farmers €10,500. We have increased the supports to our suckler sector to €250 per cow, compared with €90 under the previous scheme. We have increased fivefold the support for our organic sector, while also delivering support for the tillage and sheep sectors. In the face of Brexit, we have worked tirelessly to support our fishing sector and are investing in it like never before.

Meanwhile, we have seen little to no evidence of any policy innovation from the Opposition. Deputy McDonald has spoken today about what her party would do in regard to housing, for example, an area in which the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and the Government are doing massive work. Just two miles from where I live, there is a Sinn Féin housing Minister and a Sinn Féin finance Minister in government. Despite that, house prices in Northern Ireland rose by £18,000 on average last year, which was a 12% increase. The Sinn Féin Ministers there obviously have not been reading or seeing the marketing material for Deputy Ó Broin's textbooks on this matter. Again, it is evidence of Sinn Féin's bluster and lack of delivery.

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