Mr. John Enright:

The Commission adopted its position on 23 June. Discussions are taking place with the Parliament and the Council at this stage. We can talk about doing an economic assessment here in Ireland and we need to insist that the Commission do that, because it introduced the farm to fork strategy without any economic assessment of the impact on rural communities of farmers. Our Government cannot let it away with that again. We will have to put the facts on the table with regard to what the implications are for people and rural communities. Our Government will have to insist on that at European level.