British rebate and Community decisions
Collins argued that resolving the British budget rebate earlier could have accelerated decisions on matters such as farm prices. The Taoiseach favoured settling the Community’s future in a comprehensive, rather than piecemeal, way.
Would the Taoiseach agree that in the past when the British budget rebate question was up for decision, as it is again this year, other decisions vital to other nations, and particularly our own in regard to farm prices, were postponed until such time as a satisfactory answer to the budget question was obtained for the British Government? Would the Taoiseach not agree that if we pressed ahead and got agreement on the British budget rebate question we would have had earlier decisions on other matters affecting us rather than letting them drag on?
