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Politician · TD · 34th Dáil

Brendan Smith

Fianna Fáil

Constituency / panel
Cavan-Monaghan
Membership
2024-11-29 → current
Committees
4 current — Joint Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science; Joint Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen; …
2
Declared items
0
CRO-matched interests
0
Awards to declared companies
1397
Lobbying returns
Reports for 2017–2025 (party) and 2020–2022 (members)
0
SIPO donation records
388 of 422 divisions
92%
Vote participation

Lobbying returns

Returns filed on the Register of Lobbying, newest first, with the policy area and intended results as the lobbyist published them.

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Register of Lobbying2023-05-20

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

To brief Oireachtas Members of the details of the current Nitrates Action Programme::The EU Nitrates Directive requires Member States to review water quality at least every four years and to create a Nitrates Action Programme (NAP). This programme outlines a suite of…

Register of Lobbying2023-05-20

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Marine
Intended results

To highlight the critical need for a commitment from Government to ensure that the economic potential and sustainable future of the Irish aquaculture sector are realised.::To highlight the urgency to implement a functioning aquaculture licensing system as a key priority for the…

Register of Lobbying2023-05-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

That a single national database for all dogs in the country that identifies the person responsible for the dog::That tougher sanctions for those who fail to have their dog under their control at all times, and for those whose dogs are identified worrying/attacking…

Register of Lobbying2023-05-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

To invite Oireachtas Members to a Regional IFA Sheep meeting::To highlight that the income crisis facing sheep farmers has reached a critical stage and requires immediate action from the Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue.::To highlight that the Minister for…

Register of Lobbying2023-05-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

EU Affairs
Intended results

To seek a meeting with the members of the political parties on the implications of the mid-term review of the Nitrates Action programme agreed with the European Commission.::1. The IFA insist that the Minister must revisit this with the European Commission as this would mean…

Register of Lobbying2023-05-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

To request a public meeting with Ministers to discuss Ash Dieback and the problems farmers are having with the relevant authorities.::To highlight how the lack of recognition in the Interim Ash Die-Back Scheme for the significant financial loss incurred by farmers is a serious…

Register of Lobbying2023-05-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

To request the immediate appointment of an Independent Chair to assume responsibility and initiate, for the benefit of all stakeholders, open discussion and constructive engagement toward the development of the new Farmers Charter of Rights.::To have an urgent meeting with the…

Register of Lobbying2023-05-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Environment
Intended results

To highlight that that farmers will be the most impacted by the outcome of both the Nature Restoration Law and the Land Use Review.::To point out that agricultural land accounts for approximately 67% of Ireland's total land area. While forests account for approximately 11% of…

Register of Lobbying2023-05-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

To seek a meeting with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine::To highlight the urgency on announcing the start of the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme 3 (TAMS 3)::To emphasise the vitally important biosecurity measures which must be included as the sector…

Register of Lobbying2023-05-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

To seek a meeting with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for additional funding for farmer breeders of equine animals.::- the funding is required by the many thousands of smaller breeders of both thoroughbred and sport horses in order to survive and to improve…

Register of Lobbying2023-05-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

To highlight how the recent announcement by Coillte that it has joined forces with a major foreign investment house to establish a fund to acquire 12,000ha of forests and bare land is strongly opposed by farmers.

Register of Lobbying2023-05-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Environment
Intended results

To highlight that our grass-based livestock and arable land systems are among the world's most climate-efficient food production systems. Farmers will work to reduce emissions by adopting measures in the Teagasc Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) and other reasonable policy…