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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: What about the Leader programme and the detail within various countries?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Does Mr. Cardiff mean from the bottom-up, rather than from the top-down?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: It is therefore basically the farm programmes that the ECA has dealt with so far.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: The next questioner is Senator Mac Lochlainn.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I will be helpful to the Senator. We will have Commissioner Hogan before the committee on 1 March. The Senator's question would perhaps be appropriate for the Commissioner to answer when he comes here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Senator Paul Daly is next, followed by Senator Grace O'Sullivan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I call Mr. Wojciechowski.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: There is a phone interfering somewhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I will ask Mr. Wojciechowski to give us the second report please and then we will take questions. Deputy Canney will be first in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: That was very interesting. Mr. Wojciechowski gave us some startling statistics, including the point that 1,000 farmers per day are exiting farming in Europe. Europe is a big place but that is still a huge number. Another significant statistic from his presentation is that 80% of farmers are over 45 years of age. That number has not changed substantially in the last period of time either....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Is Mr. Wojciechowski saying that, rather than encouraging the young farmers, perhaps the emphasis should be on encouraging the older farmers to move out of the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I would imagine it is not the witnesses' area of expertise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I am not sure if there was a question for the witnesses. Perhaps Mr. Cardiff can make a comment, or indeed any of his delegation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: That is probably a question for the Commissioner. Everyone accepts the points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: What kind of interaction did the witnesses have with the Commission in advance of the current negotiations on the reform of the CAP? That feeds into the many of the questions we have had today. Did the recommendations of the witnesses feed into the process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Following those statements, the witnesses may want to respond in general.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: We are running tight on time. There are another couple of questioners. If Deputy McConalogue can be as brief as possible, maybe we can take two questions together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Unless Deputy Eugene Murphy or Senator Michelle Mulherin want to contribute, I ask the witnesses to sum up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I thank Mr. Cardiff and his delegation for coming here today. We have had a wide-ranging discussion on the whole CAP. One can see how important it is going into the future and important points have been made regarding generational change. I think Mr. Wojciechowski's idea about a longer-term view for agriculture and the CAP going forward should be considered, rather than the seven-year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Apologies have been received from Deputies Martin Kenny and Charlie McConalogue. I welcome back Deputy Thomas Pringle who has been absent for the past couple of months. It is great to see him back and I hope everything is going well for him. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.