Micheál Martin

Secure commitment to increase forestry grants and premiums under Forestry Programme 2023-2027, increase budget allocation for Forest Service administration

More diversification in Irish Agriculture including consideration of the benefits of more tillage farming as opposed to intensive dairy.

That the Irish government would stop allowing the removal of 500m of hedgerow annually on every farm even though the Common Agriculture Policy regulation requires retention of landscape features

That government would listen to the science on the need to retain stubbles for the benefit of bird species, many threatened, which forage on spilled grain in the winter

To ask the Taoiseach to address the AGM of ICMSA

To highlight that Irish farmers are currently engulfed in an Input Price crisis, and will need the same innovation re financial supports to help preserve food supply; employment and economic activity in rural Ireland in the weeks and months ahead. While we acknowledge the pigs,…

To invite IFA President Tim Cullinan to the event above.

Ensuring that the phase-out of fur farming in Ireland is fair and reasonable for the farms involved

Awareness of the utilisation of funding.

To invite An Taoiseach to visit our research farm in County Meath

To invite An Taoiseach to visit our research farm in County Meath.

To highlight that Irish farming is facing into a very challenging year as the costs of doing business threaten to wipe out some modest gains in 2021.::To highlight that family farms could be overwhelmed by the steep increases in costs such as feed, energy and fertiliser. To…

To secure a commitment from the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine that the establishment of the office of a food regulator will be given Government priority in 2022.::The Government allocated €4m in Budget 2022 to the Office of the Food Ombudsman/Food regulator.…

To get assurance from the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine that the forestry licence system will be reformed to streamline the process and provide a guarantee that decisions will issue within the agreed timeframe.::To get acceptance from the Minister that the…

To get assurance from the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine that the minimum reduction target of 22% is attributed to Agriculture?::Agricultural emissions, as a percentage of total emissions, have remained relatively static since 1990. In the same period, Irish farms…