by Neassa | May 31, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has said, “Irish farmers have no objection to protecting nature and enhancing biodiversity and that more consultation on how best to achieve those objectives needs to happen. EU policies affecting farmers need to be worked out with...
by Neassa | May 25, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has said while the appointment of a CEO for the AgriFood Regulator is welcome ICSA remains concerned that the powers to compel retailers and processors to supply data around pricing are too weak in their current format. Speaking...
by admin | Mar 9, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has said pushing back the payment dates for important agri schemes is unacceptable and has called on the Department of Agriculture to scrap its proposals. “At today’s meeting of the Farmers’ Charter the Department put forward a set of...
by admin | Feb 17, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has said the EU CbCR Directive (Country by Country Reporting Directive EU 2021/2101) has the potential to deliver real transparency around who is making what margins along the food chain and expose excess profiteering. Speaking at the...
by admin | Feb 13, 2023 | Latest News, Press Releases
ICSA president Dermot Kelleher has said that the constant trolling of livestock farmers by a small minority of people in government agencies, politics, media, and academia where there are more and more demands to dismantle meat and dairy farming will backfire...
