Pippa Hackett

Press Release The Green Party welcomes the report issued today (April 5th) by the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss. The Party...

Climate Action is Urgent: I have said it before and I'll say it again but the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

I hope to encourage all local communities, groups and schools to continue the conservation and revitalisation of raised and blanket bogs...

Press Release The Minister for Land Use and Biodiversity, Senator Pippa Hackett, was in Portlaoise today to announce an investment of...

I left Ireland this week laden with gifts from Laois and Offaly producers, to represent Ireland in Tanzania and Kenya as part of the...

Press Release Irish agri-food companies of all sizes are being encouraged to apply for grant funding to explore and seize exciting...

I am confident that the Regenerative Tourism plan for the Midlands will deliver for employment, enterprise and the environment. In...

I was delighted to be invited to speak at last evening's Green Awards ceremony, 2023. I believe it was the biggest yet. It was wonderful...

Press Release Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue T.D and Ministers of State Senator Pippa Hackett and...

I welcome funding for Laois Offaly County Councils to resource climate action partnerships with communities. €27 million was allocated by...

I welcome news this morning, that Laois is one of the 11 Local Authorities to have been awarded funding for the appointment of...

Press Release To mark World Wetlands Day (2nd February), Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with...

Press Release Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, will today host the National Dialogue on Women in...

My colleague, Minister Malcolm Noonan has announced that funding to the Local Biodiversity Action Fund is being doubled to €3 million for...

New EPA research on Climate Change attitudes and behaviours are an emphatic endorsement of climate action. Midland’s people’s climate...

I hope to encourage all volunteer and community groups, in my constituency of Laois and Offaly, to apply for one or more of the Community...

The call for proposals for Agri-Food Tourism Initiatives under the 2023 Rural Innovation and Development Fund is now open. I visit many...

Recent announcements on enhanced protections for Ireland’s biodiversity by my Green Party colleague within the Department of Heritage,...

I welcome confirmation of grants of between €1,000 and €4,000 to 23 Tidy Towns groups across County Laois and 22 groups across Offaly....

On World Soil Day, I welcome the increasing recognition of soil health as central to the future of agriculture and food security. Today...