complianz-gdpr domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /data/sites/web/michaelfitzmauriceie/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, must work to repair relations and actively consult farm organisation representatives at tomorrow\u2019s digital meeting of the TB Forum. <\/span><\/p>\n The Department\u2019s recent decision to issue farmers with TB record letters damaged its relationship with farmers and farm organisations alike due to the apparent lack of consultation. <\/span><\/p>\n Speaking ahead of the meeting, Fitzmaurice said: \u201cMinister McConalogue must be prepared to get all of the stakeholders around the table and iron out these issues. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt appeared as if the department rushed through the decision to issue these TB letters to farmers with no minister at the helm and at a time when the last meeting of the TB forum was meant to take place \u2013 which caused a lot of consternation. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCompromises will have to be made and constructive discussions will have to take place to determine a pathway which farmers and the department can take moving forward. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe department must be willing to recognise the funds farmers contribute to the TB Eradication Programme, as well as the man hours.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey cannot be expected to carry the can at every turn,\u201d Fitzmaurice said. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, must work to repair relations and actively consult farm organisation representatives at tomorrow\u2019s digital meeting of the TB Forum. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[197],"class_list":{"0":"post-3366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases","7":"tag-tb-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}