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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
County officers resolve to fight to retain farm payments post 2013
AT A major IFA internal seminar in Tullamore to discuss CAP-post 2013, 400 IFA county officers heard first hand the major challenges facing Ireland in maintaining the CAP, and committed to resolutely defend the current system post-2013.
Addressing the seminar, Klaus Dieter Borchardt of DG Agri in Brussels and Aidan O’Driscoll, Assistant Secretary, Department of Agriculture, who is Ireland’s lead negotiator, set out in detail the difficulties facing Irish farmers in the negotiations and opened up a wide-ranging discussion on how best Irish farmers could maintain their Single Farm Payment and Rural Development payments.
IFA President John Bryan welcomed the Government’s commitment to defend the CAP budget and their support for the maintainance of the current payment structure, which Mr Bryan said had proven itself in underpinning our production base and active farmers.
“This internal seminar is part of a major IFA campaign at home and in Europe to secure our SFP and Rural Development payments post-2013.”
He said this would be a long, hard battle and he committed the full resources available to IFA to defending these payments as they were critical to the survival of Irish farm families. Mr Bryan said the Government negotiators had to remain resolute in their defence of the current historical model.
In the context of co-decision and enhanced powers in the European Parliament, he challenged all MEPs to unite behind the Government and IFA to defend the CAP budget and to fight to retain the SFP and Rural Development payments.
“Ireland’s interests must not be talked down, as everything is to play for,” he concluded.
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