Intent: Ensure understanding of the priorities of business in its call for greater diversification of funding streams to fund infrastructure delivery::Ensure support for business call for the ringfencing of corporate tax revenues for investment in higher education::Ensure understanding of business concern that raising carbon tax or excise duty may choke-off economic activity rather than encourage fuel switching or modal shifts::Ensure agreement that Science Foundation Ireland’s investment in research centres is key to delivering in areas of strategic importance to Irish business::Ensure understanding of the benefits of ringfencing corporation tax gains for infrastructure investment projects::Ensure political support for North-South Interconnector.
Details: Business priorities for the economy, infrastructure delivery, investment in education, low-carbon pathways, science research centres, and the North-South Interconnector
Intent: To encourage a positive outcome from Brexit that supports trade between the UK and Ireland
Details: Circulation of reports from sectoral Brexit discussions organised by the British Irish Chamber of Commerce to appropriate Ministers, TDs and Officials
Intent: To encourage a positive outcome from Brexit that supports trade between the UK and Ireland
Details: Circulation of reports from sectoral Brexit discussions organised by the British Irish Chamber of Commerce to appropriate Ministers, TDs and Officials
Intent: To outline the importance of the Ireland-UK agri-food trading relationship::To demonstrate the existing structure of the UK agri-food market::To provide some key information on the importance of the UK market in sectors of strategic importance for Irish farming and food - Beef, Dairy, Sheep, Pigmeat and Poultry, Tillage, Mushrooms and Forestry.::To outline the EU membership and structures and to demonstrate the the level of integration that has been achieved with the EU, and the different structures that operate.::To outline what future trading arrangements may arise between the UK and the EU
Details: 'The Imperatives for Irish Farmers & the Agri-Food Sector' - Brexit
Intent: That the EU makes available structural and adjustment funding to the farming and food sectors that are negatively impacted due to changes in the relationship that are negotiated between the EU and the UK
Details: Brexit - Providing Structural and Adjustment Support
Intent: To minimise disruption and damage to trade and farmers' livelihoods::To ensure a commitment to commence discussions on the future EU-UK relationship early in the negotiating process::To ensure that there is a commitment to implement a transitional arrangement, if necessary, between the UK exit and agreement on the future EU-UK relationship
Details: Brexit - Minimising Uncertainty during the Negotiation Process
Intent: To ensure that as an export dependent sector, increasing market access remains critical for the growth of the agri-food sector::To secure increased support for State Agencies i.e. Bord Bia for marketing and promotion of Irish agri-food products to UK and other markets.
Details: Brexit - Increased Support for Marketing and Promotion
Intent: That EU State Aid limits be extended in Member States that have been disproportionately impacted by the depreciation of Sterling, and whose competitiveness versus their EU trading partners has been undermined.
Intent: To ensure that the competitiveness of Irish agri-food exports is not threatened by any further depreciation of Sterling during the Brexit negotiations, which would potentially undermine the viability of primary producers, processors and exporters.::To secure direct support for farmers through CAP Market Support or other measure in the event that sterling depreciates further during exit discussions.
Intent: To secure a strong CAP budget post 2020. This is critical for farm incomes, farm output and wider economic activity.::To ensure that there is no reduction in the CAP budget arising from the UK exit::To ensure that options for addressing a shortfall in the CAP budget must include: contributions from the UK withdrawal payment and contributions from remaining Member States
Details: Brexit - A strong Common Agriculture (CAP) Budget Post -2020
