Matt Carthy

PQs to Minister to seek commitment to deliver of prog for government promise to support genetic services for people living with rare diseases.

Called upon TDs and Senators to extend the 9% VAT rate for restaurants and food led businesses.

Distributed the Restaurants Association of Ireland pre-budget submission.

Distributed the Restaurants Association of Ireland pre-budget submission.

Submission of parliamentary question to address the failure of local authorities to maintain the local authority veterinary service over the last five years and to request for action to be taken to fill vacant whole-time local authority veterinary inspector posts, in order to…

To engage with An Garda Siochána and Ministers to discuss the ongoing crisis in rural safety.::To highlight that it is vitally important that communities work together to serve the best interests of people at risk.::To use this opportunity to meet with local communities, listen…

To highlight area's of concern by submitting a Pre-Budget 2024 Submission as requested by the Minister for Agriculture, Food, & the Marine.::Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) -::to highlight concerns with the Residential Zoned Land Tax, while being mindful of the current housing…

To discuss the consolidation of horticultural growers.::To highlight that The farm gate value of the horticulture sector is currently valued at €529m. The National Strategy for Horticulture anticipates that the farm gate value of the sector will increase by 30% to €688m, if the…

To highlight that the sheep sector in Ireland is at a critical point with market prices failing to reflect the production cost increases farmers have had to endure over the past two years.::- The income levels on sheep farms last year dropped to just €7/ewe, which included the…

Taxation measures to support Climate Action::• If any percentage of the farm is dedicated to farm forestry, it should be defined as agricultural land and the Capital Acquisitions Tax (CAT) Agricultural Relief applied to the whole farm.::• Farm forestry is treated in a similar…

To highlight that 2022 Agricultural Output prices rose by 26.4%, but this was eclipsed by farm input prices rising by 34.7%.::To highlight that, despite higher prices for farmers, margins were eroded with Terms of Trade reducing by 6.2%.::To highlight that the latest Central…

To highlight that the Credit Unions expanding their lending to farmers is a welcome development.::To highlight how the expansion of their Cultivate offering to agriculture is a timely development to add more competition to the Irish market for farmers who require long term…

To highlight that the closing date for the 2023 Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) Scheme is the 29th May.::To highlight the importance of direct payments to farm income, with the new application infrastructure, and multiple new schemes this year, its key that…

To highlight that access to effective and competitive veterinary services is essential for all farmers and clearly the availability of large animal vets plays a vital role in this service provision. The lack of availability of large animal veterinary services continues to be a…

To highlight the flaws in the 220KGN/ha as opposed to the 250kgN/ha.::That IFA propose a 2 year trend assessment::Two data points are insufficient to establish a trend and it ignores the influence of lag times.::To highlight how the 2 year review ignores recently introduced…