Matt Carthy

To outline ICSA position on regulator and powers that should be included in the additional legislation required

To set out ICMSA's position on CAP Post 2020.

To reduce trade disruption to the UK market from Ireland as a result of Brexit, for Products of Animal Origin (POAO)

To introduce local Advocacy Champions to TDs in the context of current challenges faced by cancer patients.

To secure an excise relief scheme for craft cider producers

Secure commitment to better policies on using timber in construction. Specifically, improving timber licensing system and output, including the freeing of licensing and faster felling licensing.

Secure commitment to faster implementation of the O'Hara Report and Project Woodland, including changes to the regulatory approach for forestry in Ireland, improved processes and management.

That the Government must confirm its commitment to maximise national co-financing of CAP Pillar 2 schemes::• In 2020, the national exchequer contributed over €280m in funding to co-finance Pillar 2 CAP schemes. These included Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC), Green Low-Carbon…

That the Government must honour its €1.5bn Carbon Tax / REPS-2 commitment in their Programme for Government (PFG).::• The 2020 Programme for Government (PFG) gave a commitment to provide €1.5bn in funding to a “REPS-2” agrienvironmental scheme over the 2021-2030 period. The PFG…

That the Minister for Agriculture and the EU must ensure sensible design and pragmatic implementation of Good Agricultural Environmental Conditions (GAECs)/cross-compliance::• Proposals for the next CAP programme include revised definitions of GAECs. GAECs, commonly known as…

Appropriate Genuine Farmer definition with phasing out of long-term leasing of entitlements::• The next CAP programme will include a requirement for all member states to have a genuine farmer definition. This definition must ensure CAP payments are made to farmers who are…

That a single database be set up for all dogs in the country that identifies the person responsible for the dog.::That more appropriate sanctions for those found in non-compliance of the micro chipping obligations of dog owners.::That there are more appropriate sanctions for…

That action be taken on IFA's submission we made to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health in 2019.::To welcome the publication of the new Bill.::To highlight that the scheme as it stands is fundamentally unfair as it brings huge stress and worry on farm families taking a…

To highlight the issue of carbon leakage by importing peat from other countries.::To call on Minister Darragh O'Brien to introduce measures to ensure the resumption of the harvesting of horticultural peat immediately.

To seek proper measurement of the carbon being sequestered on farms.::To welcome the clear acknowledgement of the Taoiseach of the potential of agriculture to remove carbon from the atmosphere, which must be fully reflected in the Carbon budget definition in the Climate…