Rural Life
Farm Assist: Calls for income disregard for land designations
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection has been told that farmers with a high proportion of land under designation...
Rural Life
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection has been told that farmers with a high proportion of land under designation...
Rural Life
The Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection has been told that payments from farm schemes under Pillar II of the Common...
Rural Life
The charity Age Action has told politicians that access to cash is about being able to “buy something in a...
Environment
The “systemic failure” by the state to implement a tailored catchment-based approach, based on the best available science, is setting...
Rural Life
The carbon tax liability of rural households is higher than it is for urban households, according to an analysis of...
Agri-Business
Teagasc spent more than €2.2 million last year in consultancy costs and a further €127,000 on legal costs and settlements,...
Forestry
The government’s new €1.3 billion Forestry Programme could face stiff competition for land because of the Nitrates Action Programme, a...
Environment
A new wildlife bill will achieve a “greater area of high nature value peatlands protection across a much wider geographic...
Environment
The chair of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, Dr. Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, has called on legislators to create new...
biodiversity
The Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss will hold an additional meeting this weekend to discuss its final recommendations. Members of...
Agri-Business
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage is set to bring legislation on water abstraction before the Oireachtas in...
Agri Politics
The Joint Oireachtas Agriculture Committee met this week with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue and his...
Environment
The Seanad has today (Friday, July 9), after nearly six hours of debate, passed the Climate Action and Low Carbon...
Rural Life
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has given his assurances to independent TD Michael Healy-Rae that the government “will certainly not tell people...
Agri Politics
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine heard from Christine Tacon, the UK’s Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA)...
Agri Politics
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed it will reconvene tomorrow, Wednesday, September 4, in...
Environment
The Joint Committee on Climate Action has officially launched its final, cross-party report today, Tuesday, April 16. The report is...
Beef
A meeting is set to take place tomorrow, Tuesday, April 9, in government buildings as hearings begin on the future...