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- 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: On the ANC, there were much-needed increases in 2018 and 2019 but it has been static ever since. From the CAP documents it appears the budget of €250 million will remain static for the period. Does the Minister accept that in real terms this means the scheme will reduce in value? He knows it is one of the more popular schemes that supports farmers, particularly those in peripheral...
- 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: Let us speak about this. When the Minister says it is the highest level of funding ever for a CAP scheme-----
- 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: So the co-financing element of it.
- 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 sure the Minister accepts that in terms of the overall pillar 2 budget when we account for inflation there will be a reduction-----
- 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: -----even accounting for the increase in Exchequer funding.
- 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: Pillar 1 is static with regard to the basic payment.
- 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. So that will account-----
- 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 next year pillar 1 will see a 13% reduction on where it was in 2019.
- 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.