Taoiseach hopes rural Ireland will be 'pleasantly surprised' with government programme

Leo Varadker: "I sincerely hope that when farmers and people living in rural Ireland and those who are dependent on the rural economy, when they open the programme for government, they'll be pleasantly surprised by the content."

Leo Varadkar says he hopes that farmers and rural Ireland will be pleased with the upcoming programme for government.

There had been much speculation on how agriculture and regional development policies would take shape as the marriage of ideologically opposed partners in the Green Party and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael attempted to find common ground for government.