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Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue TD, today announced that 2023 Nitrates Derogation applications can now be submitted using the Department’s on-line portal, www.agfood.ie

The Department of Finance has today published the latest in its series on SME Credit Demand Surveys which covers the period April 2022– September 2022

Minister of State with responsibility for Company Regulation at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Dara Calleary T.D., today held a webinar on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which entered into force on January 5th, 2023. EU Member States now have 18 months in which to transpose the directive into law.

The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD, the Minister of State for Planning and Local Government, Kieran O’Donnell TD, and the Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform Malcolm Noonan TD, have welcomed the publication today of the Draft Planning and Development Bill 2022.

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The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD, has welcomed the new dwelling completions figures for Q4 2022, published by the CSO this morning, which showed 29,851 new dwellings were completed in 2022

Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys, today (Thursday January 26th) announced the details of the 46 applicant groups who were successful under Stage 1 of the 2023-2027 LEADER programme.

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The Minister for Finance, Michael McGrath TD, will travel to London this afternoon (Wednesday, 25 January) for a two-day official visit which will include a meeting at No. 11 Downing Street with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt MP.

Malcolm Noonan TD, Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, has today announced a doubling of funding to the Local Biodiversity Action Fund to €3 million for 2023.