Danny Healy-Rae

Funding secured in Budget 2024

Funding secured in Budget 2024

Increased funding allocated in the upcoming budget 2024 to voluntary providers

Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP)::That all farmers in the scheme must be paid in full on all of their eligible animals. The Minister for Agriculture in his mart meetings on CAP committed publicly that all farmers taking part in the SCEP would be paid in full on all of…

Rates of Stamp Duty -::Agriculture is removed from the commercial definition and revised in line with the residential stamp duty charge of 1%, up to €1m, and 2% thereafter.::Young Trained Farmer Stamp Duty Relief -::Amendment to allow the business plan to be submitted to Teagasc…

The proposed Residential Zoned Land Tax will not apply to currently used agricultural land in a manner similar to the exemption provided under the Vacant Site Levy exemption.

To highlight how the New Ash Dieback Scheme must compensate for loss of timber asset.::To require a 100% reconstitution grant for all infected plantations, enabling forest owners to clearfell and replant with tree species that satisfy their management objectives.::To propose…

BoyleSports intention is to maintain and continue dialogue with public officials. By sharing information on key measures that BoyleSports have already enacted. Engagement on the proposed measures within the draft Bill, discuss BoyleSports view and solicit the views of the…

Ask elected representatives to support the prioritisation of Lone Parents in the budget

To get substantial amendments to the EU proposed law in terms of removing certain articles, ensuring that no farmer owned land would be compulsorily re-wetted and that any measures carried out by farmers would reflect the permanent nature of change to that land holding and…

To get emergency funding from the Brexit reserve for the sheep sector for 23-24 and to get an increased payment under the sheep improvement scheme and a payment for wool management under the longer term

To submit our annual Pre-Budget Submission and disseminate it to key figures to make them aware of our asks for the upcoming Budget, particulary as it relates to one-parent families in Ireland

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…

Farm Schemes -::To propose a tax credit for new and existing individuals practising as independent agronomists.::To propose that funding should be provided to enable young tillage farmers under 40 to upskill and undertake courses in agronomy and integrated pest management.::To…

• The allocation to the Irish farming sector from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR) needs to reflect the importance of the UK market to Irish primary producers and to protect them against the disproportionate impact of Brexit on Irish agrifood exports. Farmers, as price…