
The INHFA said any potential retirement scheme needs a payment rate amounting to €18,200 annually.
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Two weeks after Storm Éowyn made landfall, people are still without electricity, but across the west and north, they have felt without power since the cabinet was announced.
Thomas Byrne was speaking to the Irish Farmers Journal about three separate dog attacks that happened in the county in the last month.
It comes as IFA environmental chair John Murphy welcomed the new Government’s commitment to retaining Ireland’s derogation, outlined in the Programme for Government.
On Friday 7 February, the speed limit on many rural local roads will change from 80km/h to 60km/h.
The new Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and the Marine says that the strings attached to payments are responsible for low uptake of SCEP and the Sheep Welfare scheme.
David Wright reports from the UFU roadshow held in Coleraine on Monday night
Farmers have had minimal representation over the past number of years when several significant government renewables policies were formed.
The announcement comes as the Government, upon the nomination of Taoiseach Micheál Martin, formally appointed Ministers of State and assigned their responsibilities on Wednesday.