Rural Life
Budget 2024: Rural households will continue to struggle - IRL
Irish Rural Link (IRL) has “broadly welcomed” the announcements made in Budget 2024, but warned that the increase to the...
Rural Life
Irish Rural Link (IRL) has “broadly welcomed” the announcements made in Budget 2024, but warned that the increase to the...
Agri-Business
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) has welcomed extra funding for sheep farmers in Budget 2024, but said...
Agri-Business
The lack of a farm succession scheme in Budget 2024 will lead to the “mass emigration” of young people from...
Rural Life
The government has decided to postpone a planned increase in the fuel excise rate applied to petrol, diesel and marked...
Agri-Business
The government has confirmed that the flat-rate compensation measure for farmers will decrease from 5% to 4.8% from January 1,...
Agri-Business
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) is calling on the government to deliver “tangible support” for farmers in Budget 2024. The...
Agri-Business
Farmers must be a “priority” in the upcoming Budget, according to Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD who said that many farmers...
Sheep
Suckler, beef and sheep farmers feel their sector has been “unfairly targeted in concerns around climate change and biodiversity loss”,...
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) is likely to increase its spending on consultancy services – partly because...
Agri Politics
Dublin MEP Ciarán Cuffe says Poland and Hungary should back down in the row with the EU over the budget....
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has been allocated an increased budget to tackle challenges next year under...
Agri-Business
More than €177 million was spent on staff payroll costs at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in...
Agri Politics
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has held an online meeting with the Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, the Minister for Public...
CAP / Schemes
Today proposals surrounding the EU’s multi-annual financial framework (MFF) for the seven-year period – 2021 to 2027 – were unveiled...
Agri-Business
Ireland must defend agricultural subsidies and limit increases in Irish contributions as the European Union’s next long-range budget plan takes...
N.Ireland
Ulster Farmers’ Union president Barclay Bell has said the recently announced 2018-19 budget allocation for the Department of Agriculture, Environment...
Agri-Business
Any cuts to Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funding are strongly opposed by the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS). Both the...
Agri Politics
Labour TD Willie Penrose has serious concerns regarding how the deficit in the EU budget will be filled following the...