Intent: To highlight key policy priorities for the business community in County Kildare, including:Housing supply and infrastructure deliverySkills and education alignment with enterprise needsEnergy and grid capacityCompetitiveness for FDI and indigenous business
Details: Chamber Presidents Lunch Speech
Intent: To ask that Councillors bring a motion to a council meeting for budget towards the roll out of sunscreen dispensers in public places.::To campaign for the need for sunscreen in public places.
Details: Public sunscreen dispensers
Intent: Aim is to secure zoning for housing for land
Details: Enquiry regarding LAP 2024-2030 for Celbridge KCC
Intent: Advocating the economic benefits of HRI & to ensure continued government support for the Irish horseracing industry
Details: Stallion Trail Invitations
Intent: To allow farmers and their families to engage with all Election Candidates on a range of policy issues which directly affect the farming and agri-food industry.::To invite all candidates to participate in the public meetings.::To set out the 'Key Asks' as per the IFA Manifesto for European Parliament and Local Government Elections and seek responses from the candidates in a Q and A session.
Details: European Parliament Elections 2024 - IFA Public Meetings
Intent: Provide members of KCC with an awareness of our current land holding in Celbridge and our interest in putting these lands forward for zoning. To have our lands re-zoned in the 2024-2030 LAP::Inclusion of land in 2024-2030 rezoning
Details: Enquiry regarding LAP 2024-2030 for Celbridge KCC
Intent: Requesting funding sum of €100,000 LPT funds from the Naas Municipal District Council members.
Details: requesting funding support towards our Beaufort project.
Intent: To communicate to the Irish Government, the vast number of issues and the frustration of farmers on the ground due a number of key issues, including::- The EU Green Deal/Farm to Fork policies and their impact on farm productivity/cost of production;::- The transformation of CAP away from supporting food production to curbing farm output – particularly GAEC 2;::- The proposed Mercosur deal and how it could devastate the Irish Beef sector;::- Overly complicated schemes such as ACRES and TAMS which have been poorly implemented by the Irish Department of Agriculture leading to widespread delayed payment and failure to deliver any investment grant aid approvals in 2023;::- Excessive regulation adding massively to farmers cost of production;::- Nitrates derogation reduction;::- The Nature Restoration;::- The Industrial Emissions Directive and the Commissions farcical handling of it;.::- The 3-crop and catch crops rules in tillage with DAFM saying this week there is no room for flexibility d
Details: EU Farmer Protests - Solidarity of Irish Farmers
Intent: To voice farmers' anger and frustration at the ever-increasing administrative burden being placed on them which has had a major impact on farm family incomes.::To highlight the following key issues that are contributing to growing frustration and anger with the political system::1. The transformation of CAP away from supporting food production towards actually reducing farm output. CAP funding is being redirected to environmental schemes – The transformation of CAP away from supporting food production towards actually reducing farm output. CAP funding is being redirected to environmental schemes – the EU is effectively implementing new environmental regulations such as the “eco-schemes” on the cheap by redirecting existing funding instead of allocating additional funds.::2. The failure of the EU to properly compensate farmers under CAP. In 2014, Ireland received €1.16bn in Pillar one funding from EU – that figure is effectively the same today, 10 years on, despite huge inflation in far
Details: Kildare County Council - 'Enough is Enough' Campaign
Intent: Provide a general overview on the Irish residential construction industry and the broader housing market. ::Notification of stakeholders of the joint action taken by Cairn Homes plc and Glenveagh Properties plc against Kildare County Council for reducing the number of new homes that can be built to 2028 and underestimating Kildare’s population growth.
Details: General conversations with various DPOs (listed below) on the Irish residential construction industry and the broader housing market in addition to Kildare's County Development Plan 2022 - 2028
