Michael Fitzmaurice

To highlight the closing date for the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) is May 22nd.::To highlight that targets in the scheme are challenging.::To ensure that the requirements of the scheme are attainable for suckler farmers and that all monies are drawn down.

To highlight that the proposed new European Food Safety Authority regulations for broilers and laying hens have the potential to quadruple the cost of production for poultry growers.::To highlight that full impact assessments must be completed on the environmental and financial…

To highlight the closing dates of June 8th for grant renewal applications and July 6th for new grant applications.::To highlight the important changes to the Student Grant Scheme announced in Budget 2023 which include an increase in the income limit from €55,240 to €62,000 for…

To ensure that the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (DAFM) take immediate action to have the wildlife control programme fully and and effectively resourced.::To highlight that increased funding has been provided for the wildlife control programme, but if this is…

To highlight that the removal of the residency period from the export criteria for sheep for direct slaughter within the EU removes a major obstacle from the trade.::To highlight how this means exporters can now complete for finished lambs in mart sales, which will add vital…

To highlight that the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine committed in last year's Budget to a €90/cow scheme to run alongside the new Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP), but to date there has been nothing on this scheme.::To call on the Minister to now honour…

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…

Through the Disability Federation of Ireland (DFI)'s national disparity in pay campaign, I signed a petition on Behalf of the company which was submitted to local TD's & Senators to urge them to highlight the treat Section 39 organisations are under including the disparity in…

To get substantial amendments to the EU proposed law in terms of removing certain articles, ensuring that no farmer owned land would be compulsorily re-wetted and that any measures carried out by farmers would reflect the permanent nature of change to that land holding and…

To get emergency funding from the Brexit reserve for the sheep sector for 23-24 and to get an increased payment under the sheep improvement scheme and a payment for wool management under the longer term

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…