MEP: Farmers will only support CAP reforms if sector retains funding

Farmers will only support the proposed reforms to the Common Agriculture Policy if the sector retains its present funding allocation.

This was the message delivered to the IFA executive council in Adare, Co Limerick, by French MEP Joseph Daul, the head of the European People’s Party, the European Parliament grouping to which Fine Gael is affiliated.

Mr Daul said: “The amounts devoted to agriculture over the coming years cannot be less than the amounts allocated for the budget year 2013.