The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Lobbying Organisation The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Date published 20 Jan, 2017

Relevant Matter Matters involving public funds

Public Policy Area Banking and Financial Institutions

Period 1 Sep, 2016 to 31 Dec, 2016

Specific Details Agri-cashflow loans

Intended results To provide low cost loans to farmers to alleviate cashflow pressures across all sectors That these loans would be available to farmers from January 2017 That the Minister for Agriculture communicates with the Strategic Banking Corporation (SBCI) to urge greater engagement with the financial institutions and to prioritise the prompt agreement of terms, to ensure rollout of loans in January 2017

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Joe Healy IFA President, Sean O'Leary Dairy Chairman, Martin Stapleton IFA Farm Business Chairman and Bryan Barry IFA Acting General Secretary

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? Yes

What is the directive you gave to the grassroots campaigners? To lobby all TDs and Senators on the cost of credit and to introduce low cost working capital

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Email (2-5)

Meeting (6-10)

Phone call (2-5)

Letter (1)

Letter to Minister Creed 22nd December re timeline

Event / Reception (1)

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Michael Creed Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)

Aidan O'Driscoll Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)

Brendan Gleeson Assistant Secretary (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)

Charlie McConalogue TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Jackie Cahill TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Joe Carey TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Martin Kenny TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Pat Breen Minister of State (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)

Gerry Adams TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Bobby Aylward TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

John Brassil TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Declan Breathnach TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

James Browne TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Peter Burke TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Mary Butler TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Dara Calleary TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Sean Canney Minister of State (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)

Pat Casey TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Shane Cassells TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Michael Collins TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Barry Cowen TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

David Cullinane TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Michael W. D'Arcy TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Pat Deering TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Pearse Doherty TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Regina Doherty Government Chief Whip and Minister (Department of the Taoiseach)

Timmy Dooley TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Bernard Durkan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Peter Fitzpatrick TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Michael Fitzmaurice TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Charles Flanagan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Pat the Cope Gallagher TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Noel Grealish TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Brendan Griffin TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Michael Harty TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Danny Healy-Rae TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Michael Healy-Rae TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Martin Heydon TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Brendan Howlin Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)

Heather Humphreys Minister (Department of Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht)

Paul Kehoe Minister of State (Department of Defence)

Billy Kelleher TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Seán Kyne TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Marc MacSharry TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Helen McEntee Minister of State (Department of Health)

Michael McGrath TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Tony McLoughlin TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Kevin "Boxer" Moran TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Aindrias Moynihan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Eugene Murphy TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Denis Naughten Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)

Tom Neville TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Darragh O'Brien TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Patrick O'Donovan Minister of State (Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport)

Kevin O'Keeffe TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Willie Penrose TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

John Paul Phelan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Thomas Pringle TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Maurice Quinlivan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Anne Rabbitte TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Brendan Ryan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Seán Sherlock TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Niamh Smyth TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

David Stanton Minister of State (Department of Justice and Equality)

Robert Troy TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Ray Butler TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Maria Byrne Senator (Seanad)

Paul Coghlan Senator (Seanad)

Paudie Coffey Senator (Seanad)

Mark Daly Senator (Seanad)

Paul Daly Senator (Seanad)

Frank Feighan Senator (Seanad)

Maura Hopkins Senator (Seanad)

Terry Leyden Senator (Seanad)

Joe O'Reilly Senator (Seanad)

Diarmuid Wilson Senator (Seanad)