by admin | Sep 29, 2017 | Press Releases
28 SEPTEMBER 2017 ICSA president Patrick Kent has welcomed comments by Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People Jim Daly TD indicating that a cap of three years contributions will apply to family farms in the Fair Deal scheme. “Minister Daly has assured me...
by admin | Sep 29, 2017 | Press Releases
27 SEPTEMBER 2017 ICSA has called for an immediate increase in ANC payments at a meeting with Minister Michael Creed in Dublin today. Following the meeting ICSA president Patrick Kent said: “The restoration of ANC payments must be a priority in the short term...
by admin | Sep 25, 2017 | Press Releases
25 SEPTEMBER 2017 ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock has hit back at calls by David McWilliams to tax land to the hilt. “This is the sort of populist nonsense that would be more at home in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and we all know how that has panned out.”...
by admin | Sep 25, 2017 | Press Releases
25 SEPTEMBER 2017 ICSA president Patrick Kent has said that the Florence speech on Brexit by UK Prime Minister Theresa May is a hopeful sign that pragmatism is starting to get the upper hand. “We now have an acceptance on the UK side that a transition period of about...
by admin | Sep 22, 2017 | Press Releases
20 SEPTEMBER 2017 ICSA president Patrick Kent has said he is extremely worried about the viability of the tillage sector. “The Government, in conjunction with the tillage sector, must prioritise devising a strategy to make a viable future for tillage farming in...