Could CAP be tapped to fund ESM?

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore and IFA President John Bryan sought support for an upcoming referendum yes at Cork farm machinery firm Lynch & McCarthy Ltd recently.

Included from leftwere Mrs Abby McCarthy, Jimmy Hosford, Minister for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock, MEP Phil Prendergast, Michael McCarthy, Peter McCarthy, and at the back, Senator John Gilroy and David McCarthy.

I sent a query to the Department of Agriculture in Dublin last week. It read: “Has the Government sought written reassurances from the EU — in advance of the referendum on the 31st — that the CAP budget will not be ‘tapped’ for funds for the proposed ESM budget?”