Politician · TD · 34th Dáil
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To highlight that there is ample justification for a further increase in pig prices. The prices in other European countries are still rising, the European pig herd has one million fewer sows in the main pig producing member states, from the period January to March 2023 vs the…
To welcome the announcement by the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine of a new scheme to help towards the costs of legal and financial advice for farm succession planning.
To call on the Minister for Finance to suspend the planned rise in excise duty of seven cent on a litre of petrol; five cent a litre on diesel; and one cent on agricultural diesel indefinitely.::To highlight that, at a time of a cost-of-living crisis and stubbornly high…
To call on the banks to support dairy farmers in the face of mounting financial pressures.::To highlight that Global Markets remain challenged, mainly due to ample global supply of dairy product and particularly sluggish demand, particularly in China, and will probably not…
To call on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to ensure that all farmers who applied for the new liming programme are accepted into the scheme in full.::To highlight that farmers are keen to improve on-farm efficiencies and their environmental footprint. There is…
Support from the Committee for budget proposals laid out in the published Dóchas pre-budget submission
Published name "Christian Aid Ireland" equals CRO name "CHRISTIAN AID IRELAND" (CRO 426928) after normalising legal forms such as Ltd = Limited. No other CRO company has this name. Names can be shared, so compare the address and dates on the CRO record.
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 call on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to extend the May 15th deadline for the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) fencing actions and the establishment of winter bird food crop to ease some of the pressure on farmers.::To emphasise that farmers…
To emphasise how the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) reference costings must reflect prevailing market prices.::To establish from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine when farmers can expect to receive approvals re Targeted Agricultural…
To highlight the importance of farm safety while concentrating on the following areas of concern::1. Quad Safety - to issue information on the new quad regulations.::2. Livestock/animal handling.::3. Long term health - in conjunction with the Irish heart Foundation and the HSE…
To call for a ban on below cost selling/procurement of food and that the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022 be amended to address this.::To suggest that the following clauses be inserted as (7), (8) and (9) in Clause 61 of the Bill::(7) The Agri-food Unfair Trading…
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…
To highlight that Ireland's beef sector is the largest farm sector by farmer number with over 100,000 farmers involved.::To emphasise that the single most important component of this sector is the suckler herd with 60,000 farms. The sector generated €2.52bn in export value for…
IFA's Submission::- to participate in the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine's working group on Agriculture Water Quality.::- to address the flaws associated with Article 12 of the EU's Implementing Decision on 29th April 2022 granting Ireland a derogation included…
To highlight how, although demand for beef is strong, this is not being reflected in the prices paid by factories to the farmers.::To highlight how the prices being offered by the factories are not consistent with the breakeven price projected by Teagasc for the year to date,…