Intent: Provide follow-up information to JPC on the impacts of smuggling and illicit trade on both retailers and their communities.
Details: Correspondence with Cavan County Council Joint Policing Committee members in follow-up to a meeting with Retailers Against Smuggling
Intent: Attendance of Cavan and Monaghan Councillors plus TDs at meeting on illicit trade of solid fuel in border region
Details: Letter to Councillors after local elections to introduce RAS; invitation to Cavan and Monaghan Couoncillors plus noted TDs to attend meeting in Cavan to discuss illicit trade of solid fuel in border region
Intent: A public event organised by Engineers Ireland to highlight the role of engineers and engineering-led organisations in the area of future energy.
Details: Future Energy Forum in Dundalk
Intent: Extension of Income Averaging to self-employed farmers with other income - IFA proposes that, where a farmer or their spouse has an additional self-employed source of income, income averaging should be allowed on farm profits.::Increasing Flexibility in Income Averaging ‘Step-Out' - IFA proposes that a farmer should be allowed to ‘step-out' of income averaging more than once in a five-year period, where he is not carrying an unpaid deferred tax amount from a previous ‘step-out'. For example, if the farmer ‘steps out' from income averaging in Year 1 and repays the deferred amount in Years 2 and 3, he should be eligible to ‘step-out' again in Years 4 or 5 of a cycle.::Deposit scheme - IFA supports the introduction of an adapted ICOS proposal based on the 5-5-5 model, which allows all farmers to put aside 5% of their gross receipts, whether in their co-op or specially assigned bank account. This money is then available for drawn down within the next 5 years, and the tax due would be paid
Details: Budget 2019 IFA Submission - Taxation
Intent: Suckler cow scheme - In order to improve incomes and stabilise numbers, IFA proposes a targeted payment of €200 per suckler cow, structured under environmental and animal welfare measures in the CAP Rural Development Programme and financed predominately from national resources and savings from existing RDP schemes. Based on payments to about 50,000 suckler farmers with 900,000 cows, the scheme would require funding of €180m pa.::Areas of Natural Constraint - IFA proposes that funding for the ANCs is increased by a further €73m to bring the total budget for the scheme to €300m. This increase will reverse cuts that took place from 2009 onwards, take account of inflation in the intervening period and cater for new payment rates under the review of ANC areas, which will be implemented next year.::Sheep Welfare Scheme - IFA proposes the introduction of an additional targeted environmental measure for the sheep sector under the RDP programme, which would provide a payment worth €5 per ewe, f
Details: Budget 2019 IFA Submission - Expenditure
Intent: Rates for 2019 for Cavan town be frozen at 2018 levels
Details: Wrote to all the local councilors requesting that rates for 2019 be frozen at 2018 levels until the uncertainties of Brexit and the rates revaluation on the Cavan and national economy are understood and implemented.
Intent: To maximise compliance with the UN CRPD.
Details: Submitted proposed amendments to the Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016, the UN CRPD 'Triple lock' and the lived experience of people with disabilities in Ireland.
Intent: A reduction in parking charges for cancer patients undergoing treatment at public hospitals
Details: Car parking charges for cancer patients
Intent: To find out what progress was being made on developing the Lakelands Brand and the intention of the government in following through on their programme for government policy that the brand would be developed.
Details: TD's, Senators and Councillors in the counties of Cavan, Leitrim, Westmeath, Clare, Tipperary, Roscommon, East Galway and Offaly were contacted regarding the lack of progress in the development of a tourism brand for the Lakelands area. The lack of a co-ordinated brand is perceived to be having a ne, ...
Intent: to secure support for the Congress charter for fair conditions of work
Details: to secure support for the Congress charter for fair conditions of work
