Intent: Relationship building.Highlight issues that exist in relation to animal transfers in the zoo sector and sought help to rectify them.
Details: Invited Minister to officially open newly restored entrance lodge and also invited guests to attend the official opening of the restored building. Requested that exemptions for zoos be maintained in relation to proposed EU animal transport regulations.
Invited Minister to officially open the newly restored entrance lodge - Cottage Orne at Dublin Zoo - LetterInvited guests to attend the opening of newly restored entrance lodge - Cottage Orne at Dublin Zoo - EmailOpening of the newly restored entrance lodge - Cottage Orne at Dublin Zoo - Event / Reception
Email circulating recommendations from the Granard Roundtablediscussions on parenting support programmes. - EmailEmail circulating the Triple P Budget Submission 2026 - EmailEmails to Maria Walsh MEP concerning event to review parentingsupport in Ireland - Email
Intent: To raise awareness about Explorium and to seek its consideration as part of future decision-making on the delivery of a national science centre.
Intent: The proposals presented in FCIs Pre-Budget Submission adopted in Budget 2027
Details: Invitation to attend Carers’ Priorities for Budget 2027 Town Halls events taking place from Aug 31 to September 14 in 19 locations across the country.
Intent: To welcome the launch of the Draft Sustainable Rural and Gaeltacht Housing National Planning Statement as a positive step for rural Ireland.::To highlight that excessive planning restrictions that prevent access to housing have become one of the main barriers facing young people and families who want to live, work, and be part of a community in rural Ireland.::To highlight that IFA have pursued this issue for some time as it's something that our members in every part of the country bring up. For too long, rigid and inconsistent planning guidelines have prevented people with genuine local and family connections from building houses and making homes in their own communities. The launch of today's policy should go some way towards addressing this problem.::To stress that this new policy must deliver several clear outcomes including a real reduction in the planning restrictions; an increase in housing delivery in rural Ireland; a more practical, consistent and cost-efficient planning syst
Intent: To highlight agriculture issues of concern to IFA members.::To speak to the Tánaiste about the Bord Bia dispute and how the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine did not address the cause and that the Ministers engagement with IFA must imrpve going forward and during Ireland's term as President of the EU Council of the European Union especially with the forthcoming CAP negotiations.::To discuss the forthcoming CAP Budget.::To highlight the ongoing flooding problems on the river Shannon.::To highlight Ash Dieback and the failure to put a roadside tree removal scheme in place.
Intent: To launch the IFA CAP Hub at the Tullamore Agriculture Show.::To highlight that the CAP hub is one page on the IFA website which is built so that every farmer can see, in plain figures, what the proposed cuts to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget would mean.::To lead a campaign to increase the proposed allocation in the CAP budget under the Multi Financial Framework (MFF) to protect Irish farmers, food security, the environment and rural communities.::To highlight that the Irish Government holds the Presidency of the Council of the EU from 1 July 2026 until the 31 December 2026. This gives our Taoiseach and Minister for Agriculture a central role in EU policy formulation around the MFF and the CAP during this period.::To emphasise IFA's five key asks::1. To call for an increased budget. Farmers cannot do more with less. CAP needs at least 500bn and not a 24% cut.::2. To reward active farmers and not a cut in payments that will punish family farms.::3. Independent CAP Regulatio
Intent: To brief Minister Moran and Deputy Clendennen on the work of the association and to lobby them both for supports for biomass fuelled appliance at a domestic home level in Ireland. Both TD's were briefed on the work of IrBEA and the importance of policy and supports for the development of the bioenergy sectors of biomass, biogas/biomethane, biofuels, biochar, energy crops and wood fuels under the WFQA in Ireland.
Details: Informal meetings with Minister Moran and Deputy Clendennen at the IrBEA exhibitor stand at the Midlands 103 home and energy show held at the Tullamore Court hotel.
Intent: For the sport horse and equestrian sector to be included in any measures or subsidies introduced by the government to ease the burden of the high cost of fuel.
Details: Highlighting the impact of rising fuel costs on the sport horse and equestrian sectors.
Denis Duggan spoke with Minister Kevin 'Boxer' Moran at the FBD National Hall of Fame Awards on this topic. - Informal communicationEmails with letters attached were sent to Tánaiste Simon Harris, Ministers Darragh O'Brien, Martin Heydon and Sean Canney. - EmailPhone calls were made to ministerial advisers to follow up on the emails sent. - Phone call
