Overwatch Report

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[EU Affairs] ICMSA Press Release: France confronts “dictatorship of corporate retailers".

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[EU Affairs] ICMSA Press Release: ICMSA welcome Commission action on Unfair Practices in Food Supply Chain - "At Last".

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Agriculture] ICMSA Press Release: ICMSA disappointed as Minister insist that inspections go ahead.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Trade] ICMSA Press Release: Chinese beef market opening “of little benefit” if it doesn’t benefit farmer-producers “on whom the whole multi-billion Euro sector rests”.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Environment] ICMSA Press Release: ICMSA President says Citizens Assembly recommendations causing confusion on what's official policy.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[EU Affairs] ICMSA Press Release: ICMSA note “very specific threat” made to Irish farming by prominent Tory Brexiteer.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Agriculture] ICMSA Press Release: Immediate Action Needed on Fodder Situation.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Communications] ICMSA highlight ‘disconnect’ between slowness of Broadband Roll-out and mandatory move to Online Applications for payments

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Communications] ICMSA say EirGrid calculations on Pylons-versus-Underground Interconnector are "simplistic and obsolete".

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Agriculture] ICMSA warn that “potential for farm accidents increases” as extreme cold snap forecast

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Transport] ICMSA critical of ‘renewed confusion’ on tractor NCT exemption.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Agriculture] Closing Date For Nitrates Records Should Be Extended To End of January In Future Years.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Agriculture] Live Export Shipping Facilities Must Be Resolved Immediately.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Agriculture] Beef Price Cuts Not Justified By Market Developments

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Agriculture] “Foreseeable” backlog in issuing of Genomics Tags damaging the BDGP.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Agriculture] January Milk Price Should Be Held At Current Levels.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Agriculture] As milk data improves ICMSA say Co-ops “can and must” hold price into Q2 and towards peak production.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Agriculture] March milk price-setting must take account of “near catastrophic” weather.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Agriculture] Lakelands commended for “trend-setting” decision to hold April milk price.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

January–April

[Banking and Financial Institutions] ICMSA ask what happened the Low-Cost Farm Loans announced in Budget 2018.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

May–August

[Agriculture] Meeting in relation to fodder situation.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

May–August

[Agriculture] Meeting in relation to dairy expansion.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Martin Blake', 'role': 'Chief Veterinary Officer (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

May–August

[Budgetary matters] National Economic Dialogue.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': "Patrick O'Donovan", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Andrew Doyle', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

May–August

[Agriculture] CAP Consultative Conference.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': "Aidan O'Driscoll", 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Paul Dillon', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Kevin Smyth', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Brendan Gleeson', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Bill Callanan', 'role': 'Chief Inspector (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

May–August

[Agriculture] Meeting with Fianna Fail on Agriculture matters.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jackie Cahill', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Daly', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Bobby Aylward', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

May–August

[Agriculture] Food Safety Authenticity Strategy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

May–August

[Agriculture] Meeting in relation to fodder shortage due to drought.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

May–August

[Budgetary matters] Meeting with Minister D'Arcy on Budget 2019.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Michael W. D'Arcy", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

May–August

[EU Affairs] ICMSA response to the publication of the CAP Budget proposals by the EU Commission.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

May–August

[EU Affairs] ICMSA response to ComAgri proposals on value sharing and market management.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

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