Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to bring his proposed CAP strategic plan before the Houses of the Oireachtas for approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47577/21]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I have, with my officials, engaged extensively with all stakeholders on the future of the CAP and on the development of the CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) 2023-2027. The Department has most recently completed a five-week public consultation on the proposed draft interventions, with over 1,000 responses received. I have also been meeting farmers across the country through a series of Mart meetings and will continue to do so in the coming weeks.

Consultation on the development of the plan will also continue through the Stakeholder Consultative Committee, which has been a constructive and crucial body in shaping the current CAP. The Committee comprises of representatives of the main farm bodies, NGOs, industry, and academia, as well as the relevant Government departments and agencies. The Committee has met on over twenty occasions, most recently last week in the form of a workshop on the green architecture of the CAP.

The Oireachtas has also received regular updates on the CAP negotiations at official and Ministerial level. It is also my intention to write to the Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and the Marine to formally seek its views.

The Department will be conducting a statutory and public consultation on the draft Environmental Report on the draft CSP later this year.

I will take the outcome of these consultations and the views of the Oireachtas Committee into consideration before seeking the approval of Government and submitting Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 to the European Commission by the deadline of 1st January 2022.