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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: I thank Mr. O'Donoghue for his informative presentation. I now call Mr. Patrick Murphy to give his presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: Mr. Murphy can elaborate on some of the points if he wishes or we can deal with them later during the question and answer session when members will have the opportunity to ask the questions directly. Perhaps we will get the other presentation first. I call Mr. Lorcán Ó Cinnéide.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: I call Deputy Pringle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: The Deputy will be back after that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: I can call the witnesses, in whatever order they wish, to respond to the members' questions. Mr. O'Donoghue might respond first and I advise that any witness is free to make a contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: He will be back shortly. We will move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: We can return to Mr. O'Donoghue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: Deputy Gallagher is getting in by the skin of his teeth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: I thank the members and witnesses who have made their points very clearly and succinctly. We have taken them on board. Today is our last day of hearings on matters relating to Brexit, as those here probably know. We have had a number of meetings with the stakeholders involved over the past number of weeks, and people have made their points very clearly. We will be publishing a report in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (17 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: The first item is the scrutiny of EU legislative proposals. Schedule A is COM (2016) 698, a proposal for a Council regulation fixing for 2017 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks applicable in Union waters and for Union fishing vessels in certain non-EU waters. It is proposed that the proposal does not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: I remind members, witnesses and people in the Public Gallery to turn off their mobile telephones for the duration of the meeting. I welcome Professor Alan Matthews of Trinity College, Dublin. It is an honour to have him appear before the committee today to discuss the issues presented by Brexit and the impact of the UK referendum on membership of the European Union on the Irish agrifood...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: I thank Professor Matthews for his thought-provoking presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: We will move to the next round of questions. We will hear first from Senator Tim Lombard who will be followed by Senator Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Deputy Willie Penrose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: We will have a final round of questions from Senators Mulherin and Paul Daly and Deputy Pringle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: I thank the Senator. I have a couple of brief questions for the witness. In the main, we have spoken about the challenges of Brexit. Are there agricultural opportunities for us? How best can we challenge or take advantage of the opportunities? As for the timeframe, the Prime Minister has indicated that she will trigger Article 50 before the end of March. A two-year process will follow...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: I thank the professor for his contribution on that particular issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: We will move on to the next issue, which is obviously linked to Brexit to a certain extent. The issue is Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, reform post-2020. While a copy of the professor's opening statement has been circulated to members of the committee, I ask him to address its key points before we revert to the members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: I thank the professor. He is right to say that this is our first foray into this particular area, but because it is feeding into the Brexit debate the two are linked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: I thank the Deputies and ask Professor Matthews to address the points made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Pat Deering: I will offer an observation from my experience. The opening point of CAP reform is not always where the end point is. We saw during the most recent CAP reform that the then Commissioner had very radical proposals but that the eventual outcome was totally different. We must bear that in mind. In addition, the main difference on this occasion will be the budget. It will determine exactly...