Pippa Hackett
We need less exaggeration and more solutions.
From my speech in the SEANAD 30/05/2023, see link to full speech below. The climate and biodiversity crises have plunged us into a...
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Pippa Hackett
- May 24
- 3 min
€1.7 million Organic Processing Investment Grant Scheme Now Open
Today, at a site visit by the Organic Strategy Forum to Irish Country Meats in Camolin, Co. Wexford, I was delighted to announce the...
Pippa Hackett
- May 22
- 2 min
€1 million BAR funding for promotion and development of Irish Organic sector
I am delighted to announce today that Brexit Adjustment Reserve funding has been allocated to promote and develop the growing Irish...
Pippa Hackett
- May 15
- 2 min
Sustainable Livestock Village at the Tullamore Show 2023.
Today I had the privilege of launching the Sustainable Livestock Village at this year’s Tullamore Show. The Tullamore Show and FBD...
Pippa Hackett
- Apr 24
- 3 min
Greens are Good for Rural Ireland
Michael Fitzmaurice’s recent nosedive into an anti-Green culture war is straight from the playbook of Trump’s America. He is seeking to...
Pippa Hackett
- Apr 19
- 2 min
Organic Capital Investment Scheme opened
Fourth sub scheme under the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3) to open 60% grant rate available for qualifying Organic...
Pippa Hackett
- Apr 12
- 2 min
Multi-Species Sward and Red Clover Silage Measures opened
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue T.D., has announced the opening of the 2023 Multi-Species Sward and Red...
Pippa Hackett
- Mar 23
- 2 min
€150,000 for upskilling Agricultural Advisors in Organic Farming announced
Press Release The Minister for Land Use and Biodiversity, Senator Pippa Hackett, was in Portlaoise today to announce an investment of...
Pippa Hackett
- Mar 15
- 7 min
My trip to Tanzania & Kenya for St. Patrick's Day 2023
I left Ireland this week laden with gifts from Laois and Offaly producers, to represent Ireland in Tanzania and Kenya as part of the...
Pippa Hackett
- Mar 14
- 2 min
€3.1 million for seed potato and chipping potato sector
Press Release Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, announced the opening of the 2023 Scheme of Investment...
Pippa Hackett
- Mar 9
- 2 min
Laois Offaly heritage travels to Africa
I am travelling to Tanzania and Kenya as part of the Government’s 2023 St Patrick's Day programme. This is the most extensive...
Pippa Hackett
- Mar 9
- 1 min
GLAS Balance Payments
My colleague, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, announced today that the 2022 Green Low-Carbon...
Pippa Hackett
- Mar 8
- 3 min
Grants up to €250,000 available to support Irish agri-food businesses in Africa
Press Release Irish agri-food companies of all sizes are being encouraged to apply for grant funding to explore and seize exciting...
Pippa Hackett
- Feb 23
- 1 min
€100,000 for women in farming project
I welcome funding of almost €100,000 for a short term research project into the position of women in farming and the agriculture sector....
Pippa Hackett
- Feb 20
- 4 min
Opening of the new Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3)
Press Release Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue T.D and Ministers of State Senator Pippa Hackett and...
Pippa Hackett
- Feb 13
- 3 min
Irish Organics Trade Mission in Germany
Press Release Minister of State of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett is this week leading a major...
Pippa Hackett
- Feb 1
- 2 min
Women in Agriculture Dialogue
Press Release Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, will today host the National Dialogue on Women in...
Pippa Hackett
- Jan 25
- 1 min
Funding for locally led biodiversity projects doubled to €3m
My colleague, Minister Malcolm Noonan has announced that funding to the Local Biodiversity Action Fund is being doubled to €3 million for...
Pippa Hackett
- Jan 24
- 2 min
Organic Strategy Forum report published today
Press Release Minister of State of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett welcomed the significant...
Pippa Hackett
- Jan 16
- 1 min
Calling all Midlands food & tourism based projects to apply for Agri-food tourism initiatives
The call for proposals for Agri-Food Tourism Initiatives under the 2023 Rural Innovation and Development Fund is now open. I visit many...
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