Comer calls for Minister and Commissioner to ‘make the political decision’ on supporting active farmers over non-active landowners “The Commission has come and gone but serious questions remain undecided. The next phase must see Ireland come forward with hard and tested proposals in the three most critical areas, namely: the distribution of the SFP [...]
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New ICMSA President sets out his ‘to-do’ list for 2012 The new President of ICMSA, John Comer, has outlined his association’s priorities for the coming year and has pledged to ‘give everything’ he has in the cause of advancing the interests and welfare of farming families. Mr Comer, who is the first president [...]
The new President of ICMSA is Castlebar farmer, John Comer. Mr Comer had served as Deputy President. The position of Deputy President was won by Pat McCormack, the current Chairman of the Dairy Committee. The position of Chairman of the Beef & Cattle Committee was secured by Offaly’s Michael Guinan. Mr Comer’s election as 12th President [...]
ICMSA Summary of Budget 2012 Funding of Farm Schemes REPS 4 There is a reduction of €19 million in REPS funding and this will be implemented by imposing a 10% reduction in payment rates in 2012. However, the Department are currently unsure of how these reductions will apply in practice. This will impact [...]
ICMSA President criticises ‘Untouchable Status’ of Croke Park and warns against ‘Asset Test’ for Third Level grants. Commenting on today’s announcement by Minister Howlin, Jackie Cahill. President of ICMSA, said that the cuts in farm schemes – including the changes to the Farm Assist Scheme – will undoubtedly impact seriously on family farm incomes [...]
ICMSA President and General Secretary today (Tuesday 22 November 2011) met Klaus-Dieter Borchardt, Directorate Agriculture and Rural Develoment, EU Commission, to discuss CAP Reform proposals at which they addressed issues including the time frame for negotiations, Base Year, Greening, Cross Compliance and the definition of Active Farmer.
Edited Version of the President’s speech delivered to the 2011 AGM at the Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel on November 19. Edited version of the Speech delivered by Jackie Cahill, President of ICMSA, to the Association’s AGM, 19 November, Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel,Limerick. Special Guest: An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny Taoiseach, ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to [...]
While the reduction in the superlevy to 1.2% over quota for the end of October 2011 is a welcome development and reduces somewhat the likely exposure of farmers to a superlevy, but behind that figure is hidden a lot of problems that will result in many farmers not receiving a milk cheque until next [...]
ICMSA’s Comer looks for slurry spreading ‘window’ during closed period The Deputy President of ICMSA and Chairman of that association’s Farm Services Committee, John Comer, has stated that Ministers Coveney and Hogan will simply have to ‘put their heads together’ and come forward with a solution to problems being experienced by the large numbers of [...]
ICMSA call on Minister to ‘speed up’ Dairy Equipment Scheme Approvals For those farmers who have applied under the Dairy Equipment Scheme, the next three months are the critical time to complete works under the scheme and the delay in issuing approvals is now causing real problems for individual farmers, according to Mr. John Comer, [...]
