Micheál Martin

For EU leaders to commit to: sharing COVID19 vaccine doses with low-income countries; fully financing ACT-A; sharing knowledge and know-how; increase transparency.

Information sharing

Congress advise department for their attention some of our principles concerns regarding the next phase of Return to work e.g vaccinations, current health and safety legislation, ventilation social distancing measures and the use of PPE etc

Investment in technological higher education sector in Budget 2022::To secure €34.5m investment in Digitalisation & Infrastructure for technological higher education institutions in Budget 2022::To secure €44.6m investment in human capital for technological higher education…

To discuss priority issues for the farming and Agriculture Pillar as follows::That the current direction of the CAP and the Government's Climate Action Bill could shut down commercial farming in Ireland.::To highlight that a cohort of farmers, many of who are most productive…

Better stakeholder consultation

Inclusion of strong definition of 'climate justice' in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021

Ireland's support for WTO TRIPS waiver

Seek support for the establishment of an oireachtas committee to act on the recommendations of the citizens assembly on gender equality

Taoiseach to give opening address at Cancer Retreat Event 21st May 2021

We are calling for customers to be able to use the bar counter and eliminating the need for table service and social distancing. Return to full late trading hours and a date for the re-opening of late bars/nightclubs in the announcement on 31st August.

There has been mixed messaging regarding the re-opening of indoor hospitality on July 5th leaving the final decision until July 2nd. This is totally unacceptable and shows no respect to either the publicans or their employees. Staff must be re-engaged and retrained, stock much…

Based on comments by the Taoiseach & other senior Ministers it was expected that the restart support would at least be equal to the restart grant plus of 2020. This would mean 50% of outlets would only receive €1730 which is well short of the €4k in 2020. We ask the Taoiseach to…

The VFI believe the 105 minute time limit should be removed and customers should be allowed be served at the bar counter when indoor service resumes on July 5th. We further believe that given more people will be vaccinated at the beginning of August more restrictions should be…

There is currently significant debate at Cabinet level regarding Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) and we are totally supportive of the introduction of same. This legislation is predicated on public health advice and we have been told many times over the past year that we should always…