Victor Boyhan

IFA requires that the Bill must facilitate prescribing for antiparasitic products by Qualified Persons. This can be achieved by recognising the procedures currently in place where Responsible Persons have fulfilled this function in National Law since 2007 under accreditation…

Farmers are custodians of the environment and understand their responsibility to comply with regulations to protect and improve water quality, IFA have the following observations to make on the Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022::Where water…

To highlight how the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) proposals on Nature Restoration Targets are extremely ambitious and would remove significant areas of land from active agricultural production. The effect on farmers and the wider rural community needs to…

To emphasise how Farm Schemes, funded either through the Common Agricultural Policy or National Exchequer, are a critical source of income each year for family farms, helping support their environmental, social and economic sustainability.::Dependence on Direct Payments::The…

To outline IFA's position on the dispensing of Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feeds and Fertilisers.::IFA has a clearly set out long standing policy in relation to veterinary medicine usage on farms. Veterinary Medicines are vital tools for us as farmers to ensure we…

To highlight how farmers can contribute to emissions reduction while continuing to produce food through a sustainable food system.::To focus on how to reduce emissions per unit of nutrition - there is an increasing world population therefore the world will need more food, not…

Information on the strategic importance of the industry & level of achievement.

increase awareness of how a lack of access to land for young farmers is having a detrimental effect on generational renewal

To defeat proposals for a suckler reduction scheme

To amend the bill with a view to preserving competition for routine animal dosing products and to insist on scrutiny from the perspective of data protection

To provoke debate on the shortcomings of the CAP Strategic Plan and to discuss other funding mechanisms to help cattle and sheep farmers

The development of an efficient and effective program for the eradication of Bovine TB supported by DAFM

To outline the possible affects that EU Nature Restoration project will have on young farmers

To encourage politicians to take steps to resolve the issue for the Irish horticultural sector.

To set out the serious concerns of farmers in relation to cow banding.