Martin Kenny

The allocation of significant additional resources to address the significant infrastructural deficits in the North West of Ireland

To establish a credit union supported, state backed fund for Social Housing

Inclusion of progress for the N4 and N5 roads in the upcoming review of the capital investment plan

Discretion in lending small amounts to be restored to credit unions::To ensure credit is available for the most vulnerable

To tackle income volatility:::- Extension of income averaging where farmer’s spouse is self-employed - where a spouse of a farmer has a fully separable source of income from self-employment, income averaging should be allowed on the farm profits.::- Individualising income…

Agri-Environment Schemes - GLAS - that funding of €250m is allocated for agri-environment schemes in Budget 2017, with full payments for all GLAS, AEOS and oranic scheme participants::Areas of Natural Constraints - that funding is increased by €25m in Budget 2017, to €225m, This…

To provide low cost loans to farmers to alleviate cashflow pressures across all sectors::That these loans would be available to farmers from January 2017::That the Minister for Agriculture communicates with the Strategic Banking Corporation (SBCI) to urge greater engagement with…

That progress would be made in the development of the Hen Harrier Threat Response Plan::That there would be a meeting of the Consultative Committee called::That the afforestation ban be removed under the Threat Response Plan and replaced with an assessment process operated by…

To establish a credit union supported, state backed fund for SMEs

That the reversal of cuts, as per the commitment in the Programme for Government of €25m , would be brought forward to Budget 2017

That the Autumn re-opening of the revised GLAS Scheme, when combined with the ongoing applications, must accommodate over 50,000 farmer places::That the implementation of the targeted output Agri-Environment Scheme, which will complement existing environmental programmes, will…

That the Minister for Agriculture would put in place a crisis fund for farmers who have suffered crop losses of 25-50% and straw losses in excess of 50%::That Aid would be paid on a once-off basic to cereal and oilseed growers who can demonstrate that they incurred substantial…

Maintenance Programme for flooding on the River Shannon::To ensure that there will be a review of cost benefit analysis so that agricultural land and losses resulting from output is adequately taken into account

That the Grocery Goods Regulations would be properly enforced::That an Independent Retail Ombudsman would be appointed::That there be a ban on Below Cost Selling

Renewed commitment and plan of action for the Government's target of an 80% reduction in emissions between transport, energy and buildings::Renewed commitment and plan of action for the Government's target of carbon neutrality for agriculture by 2050::The National Climate Change…