Politician · TD · 34th Dáil
Returns filed on the Register of Lobbying, newest first, with the policy area and intended results as the lobbyist published them.
Based on the ESRI report showing the impact of various Brexit scenarios, to highlight again the urgent need bring forward a comprehensive support package for farmers.
That farm scale and community projects are put at the heart of the Government and Minister Bruton's renewables policy, rather than big business::To point out that the strategy for renewable electricity supply by successive Governments has fulled a rush to large scale renewable…
To criticise the lack of support by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to promote Irish aquaculture production in light of the report 'The Business of Seafood 2018' published by Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM)::To highlight the lack of progress with new licences as…
To highlight that Minister Madigan has failed to take account of how farmers manage their hill land responsibly and where land is burnt, it is done in a managed way.::To point out that wildfires can be avoided if the window for burning included the month of March, which was…
To deliver direct payments across all the schemes on time to farmers and within the deadlines set down by the Charter of Rights
To highlight that the Report shows the profitability challenges of vulnerable sectors including livestock and tillage::To point out that the Report, while showing overall increases in GHG emissions, also highlights the fact that emissions per kilo of output is decreasing, as…
To welcome the decision by the Minister for Agriculture to include all sectors for eligibility for TAMS grants for meal bins::That all sectors, including beef and sheep, in common with dairying will now be eligible for a 40% grant and young farmers at a grant rate of 60%.::To…
To welcome the announcement by the Hen Harrier Project that every farmer who has applied will be offered a contract
To ensure that the Department of Agriculture makes contact with all appellants and that they would send them the information relevant to their townland::To ensure discrimination against areas is avoided
That this review does not hold up payments to farmers later in the year
That the Minister for Agriculture would reject the proposal to impose a 30-day pre-movement TB test on animals in the Delegated Acts under the New EU Animal Health Law::To demonstrate that this control on animal movements would impact severely on the normal trade for cattle and…
To highlight that a 'no deal' Brexit would be a disaster for farmers in Ireland::That EU solidarity would be converted into tangible support.::To highlight that a key issue for Ireland will be the schedule of WTO tariffs and tariff-free quotas applied by the UK in the event of a…
To reiterate the concerns of local farmers and their families in County Leitrim::To support the need for such a study::To recognise that forestry is a permanent land use change and that it is very important that there is full understanding of what the shift from traditional…
To point out that the Minister for Agriculture's comments describing the four movement rule in the QPS as 'a purely private arrangement' were highly misleading and incorrect::To point out that the QPS was introduced in 2009 in order to reward farmers for producing quality. This…
To discuss the ongoing work on the development of a new reconstitution scheme for farmers affected by the ash dieback disease.