Mary Butler

To garner support for better services for patients receiving dialysis and other renal services in Waterford University Hospital

To garner support for better services for patients receiving dialysis and other renal services in Waterford University Hospital

To invite Minister Mary Butler TD to launch this year's campaign::To spread awareness, through the Green Ribbon Campaign, about all mental health difficulties in the farming community, and to help end mental health stigma and discrimination.::To give farmers and rural…

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…

Rates of Stamp Duty -::Agriculture is removed from the commercial definition and revised in line with the residential stamp duty charge of 1%, up to €1m, and 2% thereafter.::Young Trained Farmer Stamp Duty Relief -::Amendment to allow the business plan to be submitted to Teagasc…

The proposed Residential Zoned Land Tax will not apply to currently used agricultural land in a manner similar to the exemption provided under the Vacant Site Levy exemption.

To highlight how the New Ash Dieback Scheme must compensate for loss of timber asset.::To require a 100% reconstitution grant for all infected plantations, enabling forest owners to clearfell and replant with tree species that satisfy their management objectives.::To propose…

Update the Minister on work of Jigsaw in youth mental health sphere.

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…

To seek clarity on the new statutory scheme being designed for the financing and regulation of provision of home support services currently being developed by the Department of Health and to seek an update on when this scheme may be introduced.::To ensure that there is equitable…

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…

Additional state funding, sustainability of Pieta's services and full implementation of Sharing the Vision

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