Joe Fox

Intent: Review and improve the responsiveness and employer focus of apprenticeships. Increase industry input and where possible accelerate programme development to meet emerging skills needs.

Details: Presidents Speech at the Apprenticeship Expo Launch

Intent: To highlight that Bord Bia is responsible for the Quality Assurance standards on Irish farms. It is Bord Bia which inspect farms to ensure these standards. Farmers are constantly told that the customers want high standards. Yet now farmers find out that the Chair of Bord Bia's company Dawn Farm Foods is using Brazilian beef apparently at the behest of these same customers.::That IFA along with other farm organisations were scheduled to be in discussions with Bord Bia about Quality Assurance standards on farms. As farmer representatives, IFA cannot expect farmers to engage in meetings on standards while the Chair uses Brazilian beef.::To appeal to both the Minister for Agriculture and the Chair of Bord Bia to realise that prolonging this issue is not in anybody's interest and to put forward a proposal that the Chair should stand down, in the interests of Bord Bia and in the interests of Irish farming. The Minister must see the damage it is doing.::To highlight how Ireland has built up

Details: Bord Bia Protest

Intent: Economic Development SPC Inputting, formulating, developing, and reviewing policies that directly impact local business, tourism and jobs in Meath

Details: Economic Development SPC

Intent: To highlight to the Minister for Agriculture, Food & the Marine the crisis in the tillage sector.::That the loss making scenario after the harvest is especially substantial for growers exposed to rented or leased land.::To highlight that native Irish grain prices are being undermined by cheap imports from outside the EU. These are subject to much lower production standards and regulations around the use of plant protection products and genetically modified seeds.

Details: IFA National Tillage Crisis Meeting

Intent: Advocating the economic benefits of HRI & to ensure continued government support for the Irish horseracing industry

Details: Stallion Trail Invitations

Intent: Meeting to provide updates on Economic Development, Enterprise & Rural Development projects and work programme in Meath.

Details: Meath Economic Development, Enterprise, Tourism, EU Affairs & Rural Regeneration SPC

Intent: Service user had moved to Ireland seeking International Protection and was seeking local authority housing whilst also requiring homeless accommodation in the interim.

Details: Assistant Refuge Manager Cora McCann and key worker Stacey Dwyer advocated with two local representatives on behalf of a service user around homeless accommodation/local authority housing.

Intent: To meet with Meath County Council to engage on creating a Code of Conduct for farm inspections. The Council would not engage on creating a Code of conduct but were willing to adopt a centralised one from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which is being worked on at present.

Details: Meath County Council / Farm Inspections

Intent: Increase in funding, new facilities

Details: Informing political representatives on local youth issues

Intent: Raising awareness of Prosper Meath and inviting Councillors to engage and work with us on disability issues.

Details: Congratulatory letters sent to newly elected Councillors in the June 2024 Local Elections on 25th June 2024.