Politician · Senator · 27th Seanad
Returns filed on the Register of Lobbying, newest first, with the policy area and intended results as the lobbyist published them.
Agri-Environment Schemes - GLAS - that funding of €250m is allocated for agri-environment schemes in Budget 2017, with full payments for all GLAS, AEOS and oranic scheme participants::Areas of Natural Constraints - that funding is increased by €25m in Budget 2017, to €225m, This…
Modification to existing Greenways programme to allow payments to be made for walkways and the GLAS
Seek support of Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food & Marine for a number of ICMSA policy initiatives.
policy change
Addressed the young farmer concerns regarding Brexit to joint Oireachtas committee
Enhancement of Farm Schemes:::- TAMS on-farm investment support scheme - immediate approval for all farmers who have applied for tranches 1 & 2::- Payments in July for those farmers who have completed works under the part approvals issued earlier in the year::- Beef Data and…
That the Department of Agriculture takes on board IFA proposals to amend the RDP which will better utilise the €4bn funding available over the lifetime of the Programme
To stay with the existing derogation and not introduce compulsory EID
To prevent any further diminution of competition in the purchase of cattle and sheep
To secure a targeted sheep scheme of €25m::To ensure that such a scheme has minimal costs and bureaucracy on farmers
Immediate reopening of the BDGS for new participants::To secure additional funding of €25m to increase suckler cow support
To ensure faster and move efficIent approvals in the TAMS::To ensure that payments are processed to farmers faster on completion of work under the TAMS