Relevant Matter
Public policy or programme
Public Policy Area
Agriculture
Period
1 Jan, 2025 to 30 Apr, 2025
Specific Details
Plant Health & Biosecurity Network
Intended results
To acknowledge, as a positive step, the establishment of the Plant Health and Biosecurity Stakeholder Network.
To highlight that there is a specific challenge in maintaining Ireland's Protected Zone status for the bacterial pest Fireblight.
To emphasise that Ireland no longer meets EU Protected Zone (PZ) requirements for Fireblight and intends to apply to the European Commission to revoke its PZ status for Fireblight. Should the Commission remove Ireland's PZ status for Fireblight, it will be treated as a Union Regulated Non-Quarantine Pest, requiring controls on plants for planting in nurseries only. Surveillance for Fireblight in the wider environment will cease.
To emphasise that, by continuing to engage and collaborate on plant health and biosecurity through this newly established stakeholder group will only result in a more robust sector. The Nursery sector faces many ongoing challenges, and by working collectively the sector can be protected.
Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity
Val Farrell IFA Irish Hardy Nursery Stock Association Chair
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?
No
Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client?
No
Lobbying activity
The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.
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.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
MEP (European Parliament)
Barry Andrews
MEP (European Parliament)
Barry Cowen
MEP (European Parliament)
Billy Kelleher
MEP (European Parliament)
Ciaran Mullooly
MEP (European Parliament)
Cynthia Ní Mhurchú
MEP (European Parliament)
Kathleen Funchion
MEP (European Parliament)
Luke Ming Flanagan
MEP (European Parliament)
Lynn Boylan
MEP (European Parliament)
Maria Walsh
MEP (European Parliament)
Martin Heydon
Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)
Michael McNamara
MEP (European Parliament)
Nina Carberry
MEP (European Parliament)
Regina Doherty
MEP (European Parliament)
Sean Kelly
MEP (European Parliament)