Contrast that with the imaginative and progressive Fianna Fáil approach. Two of the innovators of the new national partnership process in 1987 turned their minds to the long overdue reform of the CAP in 1989. The then Commissioner, Mr. Ray MacSharry, and the Minister, Deputy Joe Walsh, negotiated and put the most fundamental reform of the CAP in place. These negotiations were in the face of stern opposition from intensive farmer groups across the EU. The CAP reforms came into effect in 1992. They involved transferring payments away from the meat companies and paying price supports directly to farmers. The system was designed to reward the extensive type of farming systems practised in Ireland and was less favourable to the intensive systems practised in some member states.