Environmental Pillar

Lobbying Organisation Environmental Pillar

Date published 19 May, 2017

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Agriculture

Period 1 Jan, 2017 to 30 Apr, 2017

Specific Details Meeting on Climate Change, Soils and the CAP

Intended results to encourage the Minister to adopt sustainable best practice, to include the Pillar in the CAP discussions at an early stage, and to support a Soils Directive.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Michael Ewing

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.

Meeting (1)

1. CAP a. Greening b. GLAS and RDP Funding c. Cross-compliance 2. Soil Fertility and the proposed Soils Directive 3. Climate Change a. Please confirm the Teagasc projection that GHG emissions from agriculture are not expected to peak before 2025? b. Recovery of fines for agricultural emissions c. Ammonia Emissions Projections. d. Agricultural nutritional output vs GHG Emissions e. EU Carbon Neutral BioEnergy

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)

Brid Cannon Second Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)

Jonathan Hoare Special Adviser (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)