James Browne

To highlight the failures in publicising the Minister's SIs and to provide correct updates on the eISB on his Planning legislation and to secure a copy of the SI commencing provisions of the Planning and Development Act 2024 in June referred to in a Government PR and anu other…

Wrote highlighting that the kill occured in a river already under stress from nitrates and that disasters like this will become more common with climate change. Asking that they fully investigate the kill and publish the results, implement immediate mitigation measures and…

Deliver the Centre for Environmental Justice's Pre Budget Submission.

To propose::• Introduction of a min 50% capital grant for development of farmer owned farm scale biogas plants – financed through Infrastructure and Climate and Nature Fund (ICNF) and or/feed in tariff::• Immediate introduction of Renewable Heat Obligation (RHO)::• Introduction…

To propose that, to encourage farmers to grow protein crops such as peas, beans, lupins and combi-crops, rates up to €600/ha for beans/ peas/lupins should be offered, 50% for combi-crops.

To propose:::• Grant aid from the Climate and Nature fund to be made available from 2026 to all farmers with 70% grant aid for manure/slurry storage facilities.::• Slurry separation equipment grant aided by 70% to assist in reduction of storage capacity requirements on farm.::•…

To propose an extension of the Liming Scheme for 2025 with increased payment of €20 per tonne.

To highlight reforms of the policy environment which could help to deliver more homes, more efficiently and within our carbon budget.

Raising awareness of the Building Life campaign, the aim of which is to achieve a broad range of private sector actions and public policy changes that will be required to tackle the whole-life environmental impact of the built environment.

To stress the importance of Ireland retaining its nitrates derogation at current levels as part of the ongoing negotiations on the sixth Nitrates Action Programme (NAP), and that the conditionality attached to the retention of the derogation must be practical at farm level, not…

To get them to attend our event and speak about marine protected area legislaion

To ensure relevant Government officials and representatives progress Ireland's MPA process as soon as possible

Have some of our key asks for nature and the environment included with the new Governemnts programme for Government. Get some information about issues happening at EU level and what best we can do at a national level.

Invitation to open IGBC's annual conference Build Green Now

Meeting request to discuss our recommendations and the urgent actions needed to deliver the homes we need affordably whilst still maintaining our climate goals and ensuring we meet all targets