Politician · TD · 34th Dáil
Returns filed on the Register of Lobbying, newest first, with the policy area and intended results as the lobbyist published them.
To seek assurances from the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine that the Food Ombudsman will be functional by the end of the year.::To welcome the announcement of the new Agri-Regulator Board and that the new Agri-Food Regulator will take up the role on December…
To highlight the problematic year experienced on all tillage farms with the weather proving especially difficult in March, April, July and September.::To emphasise that the proposed emergency financial support announced by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine…
To respond to the draft Data Sharing Agreement between Bord Bia and the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine for the purpose of identifying herds/flocks participating in the Bord Bia and Quality Assurance Scheme where a legal notice has been issued under Section 42 of…
To insist that the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine resolves the issue of the suspension of access to the Chinese market quickly. This is a setback that needs to be rectified, given that access to the Chinese market has only recently been restored.
To challenge the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on their inaction in providing an efficient competitive Fallen Animals Collection service which has led to a dispute between knackeries and renderers.
To challenge the Department who promised that ACRES payments would commence end-November. It's included in the Farmers Charter of Rights document which was issued last week. It is not acceptable to announce now that payments will be delayed until February 2024, at a time when…
To highlight that a number of adverse weather events, such as a tornado in County Wexford and flooding in Co. Cork and Co. Louth have left many farmers struggling to house and feed their animals.::To propose that the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment would activate…
Re-introduction of the National Liming Programme for 2024
EU/ICELAND POSSIBLE NEGOTIATIONS
LOOKING FOR MINISTER TO CLARIFY AN ISSUE WITH THE FORMATION OF THE COMMITTEE IN RELATION TO NIFF AND NRIFF MEMBERSHIP
TACs AND QUOTAS 2024, COASTAL STATES NEGOTIATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, KILLYBEGS HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT
To propose that, in order to increase uptake, the relief should be extended to a young farmer’s off-farm income for three of the five years to allow the young farmer to invest some off-farm income in order to develop and expand the farm.::To propose that the percentage of farm…
To propose that Consanguinity relief is retained in its current form.
To highlight that The retention of 90% Agricultural is critical to support the transfer of economically viable family farms. IFA also supports the commitment in the Programme for Government Our Shared Future to increase the Category A threshold (parent and child) from the…
To highlight that, to avail of Agricultural Relief the transferor or transferee, or a combination of both, must pass the active farmer test set out under the current Agricultural relief clause for a minimum of 15 years.::That, where the above condition is met; to avail of…