Gay Mitchell (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 151: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the discussions she has had with the European Commission regarding the next round of the World Trade Organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26221/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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I discussed the WTO agriculture negotiations and Irish concerns in relation thereto at a bilateral meeting with the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development on 23 June 2005. The Council of Agriculture Ministers, which reviews the situation on a regular basis, discussed the developments in the negotiations at its meetings on 18 July 2005 and 19 September 2005, both of which I attended. At both of these Council meetings I outlined my concerns that the Commission should continue to adhere to the mandate on agriculture given to it by the Council and that it should not deviate from this as the negotiations proceed. I spoke, by telephone, with the Commissioner on 24 September.