An action aimed at harnessing the industrial and tourism potential of the Shannon Estuary is among a series of measures outlined in the Draft Clare County Development Plan 2011-2017. The strategy has been unanimously approved by members of Clare County Council following a year-long review process. It will be placed on public display in two weeks before going through a 10-week public consultation...
A scheme that has provided financial assistance to organic farmers throughout County Clare since 2007 has been relaunched following a review by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Junior Agriculture Minister Tony Killeen today confirmed that with immediate effect, farmers can once again apply for support under the Organic Farming Scheme and for grants under both the On-Farm and Off...
Junior Agriculture Minister Tony Killeen T.D. has reminded all Clare farmers in the Suckler Welfare Scheme that they are required to use the Animal Events System to register calf births from 1 January 2010. The Clare Fianna Fail Deputy said the scheme will continue this year at the rate of 40 euro per animal and that payment will issue over the coming weeks in respect of the 2009 Scheme year. He...
Mr. Tony Killeen T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has warmly welcomed the award of the Farmers’ Markets Good Practice Standard to Kilrush Farmers’ Market. The Clare T.D. said he was delighted that West Clare market had now joined Ennis Farmers’ Market and Ballyvaughan Farmers’ Market in being among 34 markets nationwide to have reached...
Minister of State Tony Killeen today confirmed that two remedial work schemes have been approved for local authority housing stock in Ennis and Scarriff. The Clare Fianna Fail T.D. said that 26 million euro is being provided by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, towards schemes around the country including housing units in the Clare County capital as well as at the...
A new nationwide campaign to promote the nutritional benefits and consumption of dairy produce milk will be rolled out from this April, Junior Agriculture Minister Tony Killeen has announced. Minister of State Killeen said the ‘Milk in Action’ programme, which is co-ordinated by the National Dairy Council (NDC), aims through linkage with sport to increase milk consumption by young people in...
Tony Killeen, Fianna Fail TD for Clare, and Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, has called on all relevant Clare farming interests to continue to engage actively and realistically in the discussions on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which will intensify in the early months of this year. The CAP will undergo significant change from 2013. Ireland has...
Junior Agriculture Minister Tony Killeen T.D., has said that despite the country’s overall milk quota position and the difficult year experienced by dairy farmers, demand for milk quota has held up very strongly. The Clare Fianna Fail Deputy made his comment following the confirmation of the aggregate results of the seventh Milk Quota Trading Scheme, which is the first of two that will...
Tony Killeen T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, has confirmed that payments under REPS 4 have commenced and that over EUR33 million has issued to farmers in the last week or so. The payments represent the first of the two phasing arrangements under which REPS 4 payments are made under EU regulations. The Regulations allow 75 per cent of payments to be...
Junior Agriculture Minister Tony Killeen has backed calls for a simplification of the rules and procedures involved in operating the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The Clare Fianna Fail T.D. was speaking following a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Brussels. He stated: “Proposals for simplification measures were made last May by a group consisting of Ireland and 12 other countries. In...