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Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 2)
2025-01-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Jim O’Toole (Chief Executive Officer), Bord Bia
Intent: Engagement with concerns in relation to changes in the co-financing of egg marketing programmes.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Egg Marketing Budget |
2025-01-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Jim O’Toole (Chief Executive Officer), Bord Bia
Intent: Engagement with concerns in relation to changes in the co-financing of egg marketing programmes.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Egg Marketing Budget |
2025-01-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Billy Kelleher (MEP), European Parliament
Intent: To raise awareness
Methods: Phone call, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Sought a meeting with new MEPs to brief on general matters of interest to the egg sector |
2023-09-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Heather Humphreys (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: Agreement on the methodology in line with other EU MS
Methods: Phone call
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Methodology of shed measurement for installation of new Barn systems |
2023-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Heather Humphreys (Minister), Department of Social Protection; Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: A review of these suggested changes.
Methods: Phone call, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The cumulative impact of suggested changes to EU regulation and the impact of new additional regulations arising from Brexit |
2022-09-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: To improve protection of the poultry sector at times of disease outbreaks.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Provision of de minimis funds to deal with the additional costs of the HPAI H5N1 (2021 - 2022) outbreaks and to develop a poultry protection fund. |
2022-05-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Matt Carthy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Heather Humphreys (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: The IEA is seeking to have the existing organic feed regulations remain unchanged.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Changes to Organic Feed Regulations proposed by the EU (848/2018 effective 01-01-22) were planned to eliminate the essential protein supplements that are added to the feed. The availability of feed generally |
| — | and particularly supplements that would have met the new organic regulations |
| — | is in difficulty due to negative global matters currently. The IEA is seeking to have the feed regulations remain unchanged. |
2022-05-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Heather Humphreys (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: There are two main elements required; firstly a contingency plan to deal with farms that suffer outbreaks of disease to enable swift and humane culling and clearance measures to prevent transmission to adjacent farms and secondly the establishment of a a co-funded Poultry Protection Fund to protect farmers from excessive losses and to enable them to get back on their feet.
Methods: Email, Phone call
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The Poultry Working Group |
| — | of which IEA is a member |
| — | again raised concerns with regards to the protective measures for the egg and poultry meat production sector in the event of disease outbreaks. |
2022-01-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Heather Humphreys (Minister), Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation
Intent: This latest letter expressed concern about the availability of disease eradication supports, including gas and labour to deal quickly with outbreaks of HPAI H5N1.
Methods: Letter, Email, Phone call
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The Irish Egg Association |
| — | through its work with an informal group of various poultry stakeholders |
| — | titled the Poultry Working Grou(PWG) continues to work towards the improvement of disease prevention measures including the establishment of a Disease Protection Fund |
| — | as per the recommendations of an Economic Review of the Poultry Sector carried-out in 2020. |
2021-09-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Paula Barry Walsh (Director), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Rob Doyle (Director), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: The establishment of the fund.
Methods: Virtual Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The establishment of a poultry protection fund as recommended by the Economic Review of the Poultry & Egg Sector. |