Seanad debates
Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion.
One of the notable findings by FAPRI is that, in the beef and sheepmeat sectors, Ireland would be disproportionately affected. I brought these results, and their disproportionate effect on the Irish economy and on rural communities here, to the notice of the Council of Ministers on 27 January. I also made it clear that the FAPRI study, like each of the six studies carried out on the Commission's behalf, did not take account of the impact of further liberalisation of trade resulting from the WTO negotiations, which would be likely to affect the results of decoupling for the worse.
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