Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 26 July 2017
1227. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he raised the subject of a Brexit financial package for farmers at the most recent EU agriculture ministers meeting; and if so, if the proposal was accepted. [36687/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraA specific Brexit financial package for farmers was not on the agenda at the most recent Agri-Fish Council meeting of EU Ministers on 17 and 18 July 2017. However a major item on the agenda was a discussion on the results of the public consultation on modernising and simplifying the CAP which was undertaken by the EU Commission in the first half of 2017. In my intervention on this item, I stated that while bearing in mind Brexit, the CAP should not be viewed as an "old" policy but rather as a policy that can deliver for all EU citizens and accordingly it must have a strong and well financed CAP budget post 2020.
