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Intent: Support for policies and programmes beneficial for Irish beef farmers
Details: Matters of significance to Irish Cattle & Beef farmers
Intent: To outline to Oireachtas members the funding allocated under the National Breeding Services Grant Scheme to their county and the benefits of the scheme.
Details: National Breeding Services Grant Scheme
Intent: Relationship building. Recognition of state support. Provide clarity.
Details: Requested a meeting with individual TDs. Minister attended the Zoo and helped launch the Dublin Zoo Animal Welfare Masterplan. Invited Ministers to the official opening of the Rainforest House at Dublin Zoo. Answered a query in relation to a Dublin Zoo publicity campaign
Intent: Sought to build a relationship and ensure the interests of Fed members were understood by their local TD representatives. ::To make Dail Members better understand the challenges facing independent retailers in Ireland.
Details: Letter from Martin Mulligan - President of the Federation of Independent Retailers (the Fed) in Ireland. Letter written by Martin Mulligan, in consultation with Fed employee, Douglas Oliver.
Intent: The correspondence warned the Bill could push adult smokers back to cigarettes and fuel an illegal market. Over 350,000 adults vape in Ireland, with more than half having quit smoking entirely, yet the Bill would effectively ban the flavours used by 97% of adult vapers. International experience shows bans drive black markets, increase smoking relapse, and undermine compliant Irish businesses without reducing youth access.
Details: The Reduced Risk Products Association briefed Deputies ahead of the Second Stage debate on the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2026. The RRPA supports measures to reduce youth uptake, strengthen age-of-sale enforcement and restrict marketing to minors, ...
Intent: The correspondence referenced European analysis suggesting a substantial proportion of vaping products circulating within the EU may be entering through irregular or illegal channels. It warned that weak enforcement, cross-border purchasing and online sales create risks for youth access, tax compliance and consumer safety. The RRPA argued that further restrictions without stronger enforcement could expand black market activity and undermine legitimate retail trade.
Details: The Reduced Risk Products Association issued correspondence to all TDs and Senators highlighting concerns about enforcement capacity within Ireland’s vaping sector. The communication stressed that the effectiveness of any regulatory framework will depend not on legislative intent alone, but on robus, ...
Intent: To secure the attendance of Members of the Oireachtas to a presentation in Leinster House on 7th May.
Details: Invites issued for an event to be held in May, in Leinster House, to facilitate a presentation by OIDEL (and international NGO) on the topic of freedom of education and the right to education.
Intent: That the HSE would revisit this and allocate a dedicated PHN post for the Traveller community
Details: There is funding available in counties Longford & Westmeath for a dedicated PHN for the Traveller Community but the post at the moment is included in the general nursing supply for the 2 counties.
Intent: To convey the Chamber’s support for Ireland’s EU Presidency and its willingness to assist in the delivery of events with paired EU countries, ensuring Athlone is actively engaged and positioned to benefit from the EU Presidency programme.
Details: Chamber support for EU Presidency paired country events
Intent: For the relevant deregation to be applied to Sika deer, and the removal of Sika and Fallow deer from the list of invasive allien species, to avoid unintended consquences.
Details: Concern regarding designation of Fallow and Sika deer as Invasive Alien Species under Statutory Instrument No. 374/2024
