Malcolm Noonan

Relationship building Funding for Dublin Zoo and Fota Wildlife Park

To secure a strong EU Nature Restoration Law so that we can address the biodiversity and climate crises and secure ecosystem services from nature. ::To ensure that government agrees to set up a new nature restoration fund to restore habitats and species on land and in the sea.

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…

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…

Support & funding for GROW at School as a garden-based learning programme under Budget 2024::Review of existing primary school programmes to review their relevance in supporting an 'environment-first' policy in support of Ireland's climate targets

a similar once off payment to the one provided for S39 organisations in the last budget

Commitment to investment to fully staff a community neurorehabilitation team in each of the nine HSE CHO areas nationwide as recommended in the 2019-2021 Implementation Framework for the National Neurorehabilitation Strategy

A responset from the Minister

Attempt to inform Minister about the legislation and issues surrounding the framing of the open seasons order

To discuss possible Funding sources that may fund a Craol Sustainability Coordinator who will work on a 5-year plan to develop initiatives and provide supports to Community Stations in Sustainability both Environmentally and Financially.

Build relationships with local TD's

Continued investment and support for tourism development, promotion and marketing ::Seeking a commitment by Government to retain the 9% rate of tourism VAT rate::Seeking adjustments to TBESS (Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme) to include LPG gas in the qualifying…

To demonstrate that the Teagasc assessment of incomes on sheep farms show margins dropping 81% to €7/ewe, which includes the €10/ewe Sheep Welfare Scheme payment in 2022. This is unsustainable, sheep farming is a low income vulnerable sector that does not have the capacity to…