Joe Flaherty

To outline the threat posed by Spruce Bark Beetles to the health of Irish forests.::To highlight the scale of the potential risk::According to Ireland's National Forest Inventory 2022, spruce forests account for approximately 65% of the private grant aided forest estate, which…

To highlight that the Agri-Food Regulator was never needed more than now, at a time when farmers were never more in need of a voice and regulation to stand up for their livelihoods in an ever more dysfunctional food supply chain.::To emphasise that if the retailers want to…

To acknowledge that the Unharvested Crop Support Scheme will go some way to addressing the plight of growers most impacted by last year's weather.::To emphasise that there are a number of growers who have uncut crop areas above the 20-hectare maximum limit and are very badly…

To highlight that the increases in staff costs over the past few months in the Horticulture sector are enormous and have left the sector in an unsustainable position.::To point out that it has been a relentlessly difficult period for the sector, from Brexit; the Covid pandemic;…

That the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine deliver an exemption to the three-crop rule and crop diversification requirements for tillage farmers in 2024.::- The autumn of 2023 was very difficult nationally, Teagasc analysis estimates that 35,000 hectares less of…

To urge the Government to introduce a new scheme to properly support and compensate those farmers affected by Ash Dieback as per the recommendations of the Ash Dieback report established by the Minister of State, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.::To highlight that…

To propose that sufficient funding and resources to be allocated to facilitate implementation of the National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development and all recommendations of the Aquaculture Licence Appeals Board (ALAB).::To propose that this body must have…

To point out that all horticulture and farmer employers were excluded from the Increased Cost of Business Scheme (ICOB), a once-off grant to help small and medium businesses offset the increase in minimum wage, as the sector is largely exempt from commercial rates. This is…

To highlight Focus Ireland's concerns regarding the Bill and call for pre-legislative scrutiny to be undertaken

Removal of 'mandatory Retirement'

Invite local representatives to attend rescheduled Jazz Pharmaceutical event to mark the company's 20th anniversary and 10 years in Athlone.

To seek an urgent meeting with the Office of Public Works (OPW) Minister to find a solution to the flooding at Lough Funshinagh in Roscommon.::To highlight that the water level of the co. Roscommon turlough has reached crisis point with farmland out of commission as a…

To highlight that that the Irish Horticulture sector operates on very tight margins, and is in an extremely vulnerable position because of retail prices over the past decade and soaring input costs since Brexit.::To highlight that the sector will require immediate support this…

Increased awareness, action on implementing current policy, future commitment to neurological care

Inform legislative process on IIP policy priorities