Planning for future the wrong way

I TOOK myself off to a farmers’ information meeting on CAP reform last Thursday night.

Planning for future the wrong way

The meeting, organised by Fianna Fáil entitled, The Common Agriculture Policy — Towards 2020 Legal Proposals, was held in the Park Hotel, Dungarvan. Political allegiances aside, I’ve always maintained that the only crime in politics is not which side of the argument you’re on, rather you’re not in the argument.

I arrived a little late having spent most of the day at the mart in Kilkenny where I purchased 10 animals and upon arriving home spent overly long organising the yards for their arrival. Having missed the opening presentation by Michael Moynihan TD, FF spokesperson on Agriculture, Marine and Food, I settled into my chair just as a local IFA spokesman was putting a series of questions on the issue of how modulation money is spent and who benefits.

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