Intent: To secure the viability of the Post Office Network in Ireland
Details: Post Office Network
Intent: To discuss measures for decarbonisation of residential heating sector in the context of Budget 2025
Details: Meeting request ahead of Budget 2025
Intent: To raise awareness of the changes to the free travel scheme amongst elected representatives.
Details: Providing information about the opening of the Free Travel scheme to elected representatives; thanking them for support; and liaising with Minister Humphreys and team to publicise changes to the scheme.
Intent: To secure a meeting to discuss the changes to the Community Employment Scheme at LWL and also discuss the impact of changes to the Early Learning and Care awards.
Details: Request to engage with Minister of Social Protection Heather Humphreys T.D. via department official
Intent: A fair share of Government information advertising for Local Newspapers
Details: Spending on Government information advertising
Intent: The intended result was to show Minister Humphreys the Tirlán HQ and to get a photograph with the Minister with our CEO.
Details: Photograph with Minister Humphreys
Intent: To inform public representatives of the challenges faced by people with a life-limiting cancer diagnosis receiving palliative care in the home.::To make recommendations as to how to support people with a life-limiting cancer diagnosis through government initiatives. ::To invite public representatives to the launch of energy hardship report findings.::To appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands
Details: Energy hardship
Intent: Communicate AmCham member views on Budget 2024. Full response can be read here: https://www.amcham.ie/posts/amcham-2024-pre-budget-submission-building-an-impactful-ireland-for-2050-and-beyond/
Details: AmCham Pre Budget Submission 2024
Intent: Maintain the €20m investment in books for children and young people to read for pleasure::Commit to a timeline on the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Education, Further & Higher Education, Research, Innovation & Science in its Report on Leaving Certificate Reform, in particular: All Primary and Post Primary Schools should have a School Library, School Librarian and full access to the School Digital Library Service.::Expand the number of JCSP libraries in secondary schools from the existing 30 as per the 2005 DEIS plan.
Details: We are asking that, in Budget 2023, the Department of Education: Maintain the €20m investment in books for children and young people, commit to a timeline on the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Education, Further & Higher Education, Research, Innovation & Science in its Report on Leaving Ce, ...
Intent: To highlight that the Irish pigmeat sector is currently under extreme pressure with the lack of suitable labour both on-farm and in the processing side of the industry.::To highlight that the lack of available labour is not unique to the pigmeat sector. Significant shortages of suitable labour also exist in other farming sectors, primarily on horticulture and dairy farms. IFA has made repeated calls for the re-introduction of the quota-based pilot work permit scheme to address immediate labour shortages in the horticulture and dairy sectors and that this scheme is extended to pig and poultry farms also highlight that.::That the Minister responsible should fast-track work permit applications from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) to help alleviate the backlog of pigs in the market.::To highlight that the Irish pigmeat sector is under extreme pressure due to the lack of suitable labour available at processing level and on pig farms. The continuous nature of pig production require
Details: Labour Shortage in Agriculture
