Simon Harris

To highlight that the Silage Support Scheme is an important first step for the drystock sector, which is under significant pressure to build up feed stocks for next winter.::To seek that the Minister brings forward targeted measures for dairy farmers as some are tied into fixed…

To maximise the allocation from BAR to farmers.::• The Irish agriculture sector has been the foundation stone on which economic activity and employment (both upstream & downstream) has been built in towns, villages and surrounds throughout rural Ireland. The sector, and…

To highlight IFA's concern around how this module is formulated and to encourage the scientific side on this module for Leaving Certificate students.

To ensure that an appropriate firm is hired to oversee the agri-environment on the East coast of the country.::To highlight that this scheme has nothing in common with the original Rural Environmental Protection Scheme (REPS), which the Government is trying to align it to.::To…

To seek a solution to the ash dieback situation in the county.::To seek the introduction of a financial support package for farmers and landowners to manage ash trees that have been infected by ash dieback in hedgerows and along public roads.::To enable farmers and landowners to…

To highlight where TB is at in Wicklow county and to push for a programme to resolve this situation.::To ensure that a fair funding model is developed for the TB programme::To ensure that farmers do not bear any additional TB costs as a result of the new pre/post movement…

To invite Minister McConalogue to attend Farm Safety Event in Donegal on 20th July.::To Invite Minister of State Martin Heydon to attend Farm Safety event in Wicklow on 15th July.

Enact the borrowing framework for the new regional university to enable it to access European Investment Bank funding::Support the acquisition and development of the additional lands and building on the Cork Road, Waterford campus.::Support a revised HEA funding model to support…

To influence Budget 2023 by making several key recommendations we feel would best help one-parent families in Ireland

That Budget 2023 prioritises people living in poverty and on a low income and that the measures taken are fair and equitable in the areas of social protection, housing, education and energy

Provision for GP direct access to echocardiography across the public system::Improved training, recruitment and upskilling of the cardiac physiologist workforce::Implementation of a new National Cardiovascular Health Strategy with specific mention of heart valve disease::Support…

To brief on the policies and advice that BPFI members have agreed in assisting elderly customers transfer their accounts, their engagement with senior citizen representative bodies and the central bank about the matter.

That budget 2023 prioritizes one parent families in terms of income supports, housing, childcare and child maintenance

- Availability of key inputs such as fertiliser, fuel and feed. There is an urgent need to provide an inventory of fertiliser and fuel supplies followed by a full appraisal of available and projected feed supplies for the remainder of the year and next winter.::All land must be…

Commitment to additional investment in neurology nurse specialists over a five year period beginning with Budget 2023