Alan Dillon

To raise awareness of the key priorities of businesses for 2025-2030 among new Ministers.

To raise awareness of the key priorities of businesses for 2025-2030 among new Ministers.

The allocation of time and funding for initiatives in the circular economy space as part of the government's environmental policies

1 - To introduce ACE Ireland. 2 - To highlight the Programme for Government commitment to 'provide investment in sorting technology in Ireland’s materials recovery facility (MRF) network to improve recycling processes and rates’ and how ACE Ireland can support this. 3 - To share…

Ensure that the Statutory Instruments that implement the CSRD are aligned with the intentions of the EU. The implementation of the CSRD into Irish legislation expands the scope envisaged by the EU, applying disclosure requirements to small firms for whom the burden of…

To help guide strategic thinking and decision making in the revision of the National Planning Framework (NPF).

Endorsement of our election manifesto which outlines UNICEF Ireland’s Child Rights Election Manifesto outlines 10 urgent priorities grounded in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

To ensure political parties include commitments to ocean conservation and Marine Protected Areas in their general election manifestos

To propose the establishment of capital grants of approximately 50% for farmers to invest in microgeneration. This will require a new financial support programme for on farm microgeneration with a separate structure and set of rules. This money should come from outside of Common…

Application of the natural capital approach in fiscal policy in future budgets across departments to ensure the development of natural capital expertise and research in Ireland to support policy that protects and restores Ireland's natural resources

That Irish elected representatives support greater ambition for within the negotiations with the European Commissions on the proposal for a regulation on Nature Restoration

To highlight the impact of the proposed Nature Restoration Law by the European Union, which will enact legally binding targets on Ireland, up until the year 2050, across a broad range of ecosystems, from agricultural land and forests, to rivers and marine habitats, to meet our…

To ensure that, as set out in Food Vision 2030, there must be a balance between environmental, economic and social sustainability.::To ensure that rigorous assessments of all EU and national policy proposals are required to understand their impact on farm viability, the rural…

To insist that there must be an accurate measurement of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon removals at farm levels. It was accepted at the IFA Climate Summit that research is ongoing to facilitate more accurate estimates of emissions from Irish agriculture and land use. In the…

To ensure that the Government takes account of the potential for carbon leakage to arise from climate policies in Ireland. This is a requirement of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021.Carbon leakage occurs when food production is curtailed in one…