"I'M satisfied that this Programme for Government is a good one for Irish Agriculture." That was the emphatic endorsement of Cork North West TD and current Agriculture Minister Michael Creed of the Programme for Government, the product of several weeks of intensive negotiations between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party. It's clear that the Macroom-based Minister is a strong supporter of the deal even though he acknowledges that it doesn't contain everything he wants. "Obviously this Programme is a compromise between three parties, and therefore we may not have gotten everything we wanted in there. Looking back on his time as Agriculture Minister, he regards the spell at the helm in Agriculture House as the 'privilege of my life'."

Source: Irish Independent June 18, 2020 04:52 UTC