While the intention behind the new Tillage Incentive Scheme must be welcomed, the €400 per hectare on offer will barely cover the rising cost of fertiliser and green diesel witnessed…
The emergency package revealed by Government today intended to alleviate pressure on hauliers is wide of the mark yet again, according to independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice. A total of €18…
The Governments belated recognition of the need to cut excise duty should be recognized and welcomed, but they are – as the old saying goes – another bad case of…
The Government has been called upon to ‘use the post office network to create a one stop shop system for forms’ by independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice. The rural advocate made…
A relaxation of excise duty levels on petrol and diesel need to be relaxed by Government to ease the significant burden of rising prices on motorists, according to independent TD…
Proposed EU legislation regarding the rewetting of drained farm peatlands in Ireland will incite people to protest and fight the agenda being pushed upon them, if it is given the…
Meetings need to take place between milk processors and their suppliers who signed up to fixed-price contracts given the huge increases that have occurred across various inputs, according to independent…
Government ministers are making a mockery of the Oireachtas Agriculture Committee by refusing to appear to discuss the pertinent issues facing the horticulture sector and the need for milled peat,…
The Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, has agreed to a proposal put forward by independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice to recycle and re-use more building waste. Speaking in…
The Government’s plan, announced this evening, to mitigate the cost of living is essentially anti-rural and anti-motorist, according to independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice TD. The elected representative for the Roscommon-Galway…