Agri-Business
The Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food called for community involvement in the National Biomethane Strategy Implementation Group.
Members of the Oireachtas agri committee are understood to be unhappy at the lack of representatives from the VCI at a recent meetings.
Growing Media Ireland (GMI) warned that 18,000 horticulture jobs may be at risk unless the government takes action on horticultural peat.
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food has heard of a looming retention crisis for veterinary nurses.
Rural Life
Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) acknowledged concerns expressed by landowners and farm organisations over the greenway programme.
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food has heard the average cost of greenway projects is around €2 million per kilometre.
Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) will appear before the Joint Committee on Agriculture to discuss the impact of greenways on farmers.
Greenways
The Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food will hear about the impacts of greenways, railways and road projects on farmers.
Agri Politics
The Dáil has voted to remove Danny Healy-Rae from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, and to replace him with Michael Cahill.
The Committee on Agriculture has been told that proposed new rules on animal transport will "effectively end" live trade from Ireland.
Schemes
There "isn't any capacity" in the current TAMS budget to get back to 100% approval for applications according to a senior DAFM official.
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture will discuss the issue of labelling of imported organic food when its meets this week.
Beef
The chairperson of Bord Bia has been called on to accept an invitation to appear before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture.
The Oireachtas Committee for Agriculture and Food is to invite Bord Bia chair Larry Murrin to appear before it.
A Sinn Féin TD has claimed that European Commissioner for Agriculture has disrespected the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food.
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food will discuss AD with a number of stakeholders in this week's meeting.
Ireland cannot risk the "further decline" of family farms, the chair of the joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food has warned.
A TD has raised concerns that the backlog in ACRES payments may push farm families over income thresholds for college grants.
The Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food chair Aindrias Moynihan has called for increased funding to support the ‘Forgotten Farmers’.
Minister Heydon has said he "can't afford not to act" as he puts together a "very strong business case" for extra TB funding.
Representatives from DAFM and the TB 2030 Stakeholder Forum will go before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture.
The ILMA has claimed that the law change around veterinary medicines could result in eight out of every nine of its members closing.
Only 85 out of some 85,000 veterinary prescriptions lodged on the new NVPS were purchased from a licenced merchant or pharmacist.
