Fiona O'Loughlin

Funding secured in Budget 2024

Funding secured in Budget 2024

To invite elected representatives to a campaign screening video in Leinster House.::To host a campaign screening video in Leinster House.::To bring the issue to the Women's Caucus.

To relay the business trends emerging for Q2 2023 To highlight recent submissions in the realm of Housing, Skills Gaps and priorities for Kildare businesses

While acknowledging the proposed bill was a necessary piece of legislation, the purpose of our lobbying was to highlight to Government TD's and Senators the potential effects the proposed watershed ban within the legislation could have on the Irish Racing and Breeding Industry…

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…

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

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

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…

To highlight how successive Government policies have restricted eligible land, eroded productive area, increased the regulatory burden and have made farmers wary of committing their land. The risks associated with planting have become too great.::To emphasise that the Government…

We intend to introduce Illumina and our work in the field of genomics, as well as to raise awareness of the importance of implementing the National Genetics and Genomics Strategy to the benefit of patients. We also aim to secure meetings with parliamentarians to highlight how…