Charlie McConalogue

Secure commitment to increase forestry grants and premiums under Forestry Programme 2023-2027, increase budget allocation for Forest Service administration

Ensure awareness of the new skills required in Ireland’s financial services sector and make recommendations

Urgently set up a stakeholder forum of relevant bodies w/knowledge & responsibilities to develop a national response plan to avian flu which is decimating seabird populations in UK

Ensuring that the phase-out of fur farming in Ireland is fair and reasonable for the farms involved

For them to support the campaign and raise in the Dáil/ with Minister

Raise awareness of the issues of 'legal overfishing' caused by setting unsustainable fishing quotas that ignore scientific warnings and advice, and referred to discussions from the UN Ocean Conference that highlighted the issues associated with this

Improvement to forestry policy and programmes

Consideration of joint NGO recommendations on energy poverty and energy pollution

To advocate for increased funding for various community programmes e.g. SICAP, LEADER as well as the provision of core funding for member companies delivering these programmes.

A commitment to a 30 million euro scheme for farmers to farm for breeding waders like Curlew, Redshank, Lapwing, Snipe, Dunlin, Golden Plover

That the government would establish a coordinated national approach to address avian flu which is threatening a range of bird species including seabirds

That the Irish government would stop allowing the removal of 500m of hedgerow annually on every farm even though the Common Agriculture Policy regulation requires retention of landscape features

To provide a copy of AmCham's Budget 2023 Submission::To outline AmCham's Budget 2023 recommendations

That government would listen to the science on the need to retain stubbles for the benefit of bird species, many threatened, which forage on spilled grain in the winter

The BAR funding to be released as agreed