Results 4,521-4,540 of 10,862 for speaker:Matt Carthy
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: For clarity, the Minister accepts now that the level of EU funding under the Common Agricultural Policy coming to Ireland over the next five years accounting for inflation will be a reduction on the previous CAP.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: In terms of the European contribution. We will come to the other point in a minute.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: Accounting for inflation. Is that the Minister's position now?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: In real terms.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: Going from GLAS to ACRES incorporates inflation. Does the Minister think people will be better off?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: Under ACRES.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: I have.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: We go around in circles on this and I do not think there is an understanding or at least there is not an acknowledgement. If I go into a shop with €10 and fill a basket of goods and the following year I go in with €11 but the basket of goods costs €12 in reality I am poorer. This is where we are with Common Agricultural Policy funding. I do not know why-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: Yes, in terms of-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: In terms of the payments that farmers are going to receive.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: Here is the difficulty. In terms of the payments that most farmers will receive under pillar 1 and pillar 2-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: They will be worth less.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: I am speaking about across both.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: They will be worth less in real terms.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: Here is the real problem and issue. The Minister knows I had fundamental disagreements with the way in which the previous Government and this Government when it took office approached the EU budget negotiations. I was part of some of the conversations. They did not condition Ireland paying an increase of several hundred million euro into the EU budget on us getting a return through the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: If the Minister does not understand the realities of what inflation means in terms of figures-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: I am conscious of the time.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: No, absolutely not. I have two specific questions. I dispute what the Minister has said. I am speaking about the real value of the money we pay our farmers at a time we are asking them to do much more.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: It is not. Pillar 2 in real terms is a reduced-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: In terms of both pillars, the next CAP will mean, in real terms, a reduction for farmers in respect of the payments they receive, compared with where they were at the end of-----