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Politician(s) lobbied: Pippa Hackett (Super Junior Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: 1. Introduce a programme of the planting of Trees for Bees.::2. The Minister is requested to set up a task force of interested parties to work co-operatively with heritage, scientific and economic interests to find the best solution.::3. Those landowners who damage the environment should lose their farm payments and undertake redress before they are accepted back into the Farm Payments Programme.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The lobbying included |
| — | 1. EU Green Deal - Trees for Bees 2. Bee Importation Bill 3. Farm Payments Programme |
2021-12-30
Politician(s) lobbied: Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: 1. Such trees are important in the current ecosystem and are critical to our biodiversity and bee life. The demise of the Elm and Ash make this change in the named trees specified in the regulation even more important.::2. Establish standards for maintenance and optimisation for farming, carbon sequestration and biodiversity including apiculture. Provide incentives and enforce sanctions on poor behaviour.::3. Encourage beekeeping as an complementary source of income on farms.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 1. Permit the ‘Native Irish trees’ restrictions to be expanded to include a number of species of commercial trees that have been naturalised on this island for over 800 years. 2. Protect and develop Ireland’s hedgerow heritage. Establish standards for maintenance and optimisation for farming |
| — | carbon sequestration and biodiversity including apiculture. 3. Encourage beekeeping as an complementary source of income on farms. |
2021-12-30
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: 1. Protection of Hedgerows in Ireland for improving the landscape for bees and review of the regulations for the Farm Payment schemes.::2. Exploring opportunities to conserve and protect the generic merit of the native Irish black bee.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 1. To facilitate a meeting for us with Minister Pippa Hackett and her appropriate civil servants to make a case for improving our landscape for bees as an element in the review of the regulations for the Farm Payment schemes. 2. To facilitate a similar meeting with the appropriate experts in the DAFM in relation to exploring opportunities to conserve and protect the generic merit of the native Irish black bee. |
2021-08-08
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: Inscription of Beekeeping to the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage::That the Native Black Honey Bee declared in EU and in Irish legislation as a heritage asset of important genetic value and provide it with the necessary conservation and protection.::Explore how beekeepers, can have an practical and effective input with the Department of Agriculture's drafters and implementers of the regulations in relation to the criteria for CAP farm payments and incentives.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 1. Seeking to get Beekeeping as a Heritage Craft. 2. Protection of the Native Irish Black Bee and 3. Explore how beekeepers |
| — | who have an intrinsic interest in the biodiversity |
| — | flora and fauna of the countryside can have an practical and effective input with the Department of Agriculture's drafters and implementers of the regulations in relation to the criteria for CAP farm payments and incentives. |
2021-08-08
Politician(s) lobbied: Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: To defend the largest possible protection for bees and pollinators from pesticides.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Beekeeping concerns on bees' protection from pesticides and pesticide risk assessment |
2021-04-30
Politician(s) lobbied: Barry Cowen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Establish a National Beekeeping Centre of Excellence in the midlands area of Ireland
Methods: Virtual Meeting, Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Sought support in relation to the establishment of a National Beekeeping Centre of Excellence |
2021-04-30
Politician(s) lobbied: Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Transport
Intent: Stop the approval of 3 important pesticide active substances, namely sulfoxaflor, cypermethrin and benfluralin being approved for use in the EU.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The European Commission and Member States are currently reviewing the approval of 3 important pesticide active substances |
| — | namely sulfoxaflor |
| — | cypermethrin and benfluralin. All 3 substances have received a negative opinion from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and should therefore be withdrawn from the market as they do not fulfil the requirements laid down in the pesticide regulation 1107/2009/EC. |
2021-04-30
Politician(s) lobbied: Pippa Hackett (Super Junior Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: The purpose of this communication was to seek the Ministers assistance to cease the importation of bees from the area of Puglia, Italy and surrounding areas by a UK based company who intended to route the importation of bees through the island of Ireland and on to the GB.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Importation of Honey Bees |