Michael Fitzmaurice

Farmers are custodians of the environment and understand their responsibility to comply with regulations to protect and improve water quality, IFA have the following observations to make on the Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022::Where water…

To highlight how the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) proposals on Nature Restoration Targets are extremely ambitious and would remove significant areas of land from active agricultural production. The effect on farmers and the wider rural community needs to…

To emphasise how Farm Schemes, funded either through the Common Agricultural Policy or National Exchequer, are a critical source of income each year for family farms, helping support their environmental, social and economic sustainability.::Dependence on Direct Payments::The…

To outline IFA's position on the dispensing of Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feeds and Fertilisers.::IFA has a clearly set out long standing policy in relation to veterinary medicine usage on farms. Veterinary Medicines are vital tools for us as farmers to ensure we…

To highlight how farmers can contribute to emissions reduction while continuing to produce food through a sustainable food system.::To focus on how to reduce emissions per unit of nutrition - there is an increasing world population therefore the world will need more food, not…

Effective Communication - IFA welcome the commitment in the draft Strategy to continue to improve transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of communication.::IFA propose - that a Customer Service Charter is developed and agreed by all stakeholders as a matter of urgency to…

To support the account presented to Oireachtas Members by Kilkenny farmer Dan Brennan to the effects of emissions on farm animals and farmland over a thirty year period.::To support the call for a public enquiry into the case

To influence change in policies for Farm & Forestry Contractors in Agricultural Policy

To defeat proposals for a suckler reduction scheme

To amend the bill with a view to preserving competition for routine animal dosing products and to insist on scrutiny from the perspective of data protection

To provoke debate on the shortcomings of the CAP Strategic Plan and to discuss other funding mechanisms to help cattle and sheep farmers

To ensure that all pre and post movement tests imposed on farmers because of EU Animal Health Law are paid for by Government and to outline our demands for more funding to ensure better income supplement and hardship grants for TB restricted farmers. To get the ceiling on…

Discuss potential supports by DAFM for forgotten farmers::Gain support for funding of the Land Mobility Service by DAFM

Sharing of information and results from farm trials on economic and environmental sustainability

The development of an efficient and effective program for the eradication of Bovine TB supported by DAFM