Mary Butler

Funding secured for MS Ireland asks

NHI wrote to the Minster as her comments on FDI and requirement for additional capacity to meet needs of ageing population

NHI intended results were to brief and inform the Minister and the officials on the status of the nursing home expert panel recommendations but to also inform them of the current state of the sector and the continuing crisis and lack of government support and to highlight also…

To ensure an understanding of the benefits of the Tozi App and Vodafone's commitment to addressing cyberbullying.

To invite the Minister for Health to attend the launch of the IFA Prostate Cancer Awareness initiative at the Ploughing Championships.

To highlight that the Nitrates Derogation is extremely important to the dairy and other sectors of farming.::To demonstrate extreme disappointment that the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine has not be able to convince the EU Commission to maintain the 250K org N for…

To insist on an immediate review of the table of late payment dates for 2023 sent to farmers by the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine.::To highlight that this was done before the negotiations on the Farmers' Charter of Rights had properly commenced.::To highlight…

To invite Public Representatives to the IFA's Let's Talk and Walk events. The Green Ribbon campaign is a month-long campaign during September organised by See Change to get people talking openly about mental health problems and to break the stigma of silence associated with…

To highlight the following priorities for Budget 2024::Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR).::- A fair share of the €1bn Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR) must be ringfenced for farmers.::- Potential displacement in the UK market in 2024 of €300m of beef and €75m of sheep meat due to…

To seek a pilot fund to grant aid construction of slurry storage on tillage farms in budget 2024, an additional top up for the Straw Incorporation Measure and the extension of the Tillage Incentive Scheme.::To highlight that, due to the inclement weather there have been very…

To propose that an amendment be made to the Nursing Homes Support Scheme to broaden the definition of who could act as a family successor. This would expand those eligible to cousins, great nephews and nieces and great grandchildren.::To request an update as to when the…

To highlight that the budget of the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine is reduced from €2.14bn to €1.94bn, a 10% reduction. This is a long way short of what is required to bolster a sector which is struggling with high input costs, lower commodity prices and…

1) Increase in government funding for mental health sector.::2) Clarification around HSE Mental Health recruitment times.::3) Improvements in mental health services provided to children and young people.

Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP)::That all farmers in the scheme must be paid in full on all of their eligible animals. The Minister for Agriculture in his mart meetings on CAP committed publicly that all farmers taking part in the SCEP would be paid in full on all of…

To propose that Indexation relief should be restored and extended to include periods of ownership post 2002.