Paschal Donohoe

Government commitment to adequately fund nature restoration and climate action::Meeting with Ministers to discuss Environmental Pillar pre-Budget submission

Deliver the Centre for Environmental Justice's Pre Budget Submission.

To raise awareness about the newly identified Important Bird Areas for seabirds in Ireland

Requesting to meet ahead of the budget to discuss these topics

To propose::• Introduction of a min 50% capital grant for development of farmer owned farm scale biogas plants – financed through Infrastructure and Climate and Nature Fund (ICNF) and or/feed in tariff::• Immediate introduction of Renewable Heat Obligation (RHO)::• Introduction…

To propose that, to encourage farmers to grow protein crops such as peas, beans, lupins and combi-crops, rates up to €600/ha for beans/ peas/lupins should be offered, 50% for combi-crops.

To highlight that this scheme was introduced to promote environmentally sustainable farming methods and significantly reduce nitrogen fertiliser while maintaining forage yields. It has proven particularly popular among farmers.::To propose that this scheme should be extended,…

To propose:::• Grant aid from the Climate and Nature fund to be made available from 2026 to all farmers with 70% grant aid for manure/slurry storage facilities.::• Slurry separation equipment grant aided by 70% to assist in reduction of storage capacity requirements on farm.::•…

To propose an extension of the Liming Scheme for 2025 with increased payment of €20 per tonne.

Raising awareness of the Building Life campaign, the aim of which is to achieve a broad range of private sector actions and public policy changes that will be required to tackle the whole-life environmental impact of the built environment.

To stress the importance of Ireland retaining its nitrates derogation at current levels as part of the ongoing negotiations on the sixth Nitrates Action Programme (NAP), and that the conditionality attached to the retention of the derogation must be practical at farm level, not…

TD's were asked to attend a Lobby event with their constituents to hear about they care about climate change and the actions they want their representatives to take.

Have some of our key asks for nature and the environment included with the new Governemnts programme for Government. Get some information about issues happening at EU level and what best we can do at a national level.

The intended outcome of “Debate Your Decision Makers” was to ensure that students had a chance to express their views on sustainability and climate action, elevate voices of young people, particularly in relation to environmental/education policy. We hoped to achieve meaningful…

To raise awareness of the key priorities of businesses for 2025-2030 among new Ministers.