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Plans to create a Midlands Bank to pilot public banking in Ireland should be seriously considered according to the Laois Offaly based Minister Pippa Hacket.
The Green Party Minister of State who sits at Government meetings was speaking following the announcement that KBC is to withdraw from the Irish market, on foot of a similar announcement from Ulster Bank and the closure of 88 branches of Bank of Ireland
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New supports have been unveiled to allow Fingal farmers to go organic.
Minister of State for Community Development and Charities and Green Party T.D for Fingal, Joe O Brien, has welcomed the announcement by his Green Party Colleague, Senator Pippa Hacket that the Organic Farming Scheme will reopen to new entrants in the first week of March.
The re-opening, subject to EU Commission approval, is expected to result in an increase of up to 30% in the number of farmers farming organically in Ireland this year.
Minister O Brien is urging the many farmers in Fingal to avail of support scheme through which they can apply for financial support as they transition to organic farming practices.