Received 30 July 2024
Decided 27 August 2024
Granted
Request Reference FOI-0029- 2024
Requester Type Journalist
Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment

Emails, meeting minutes, records of calls, briefings, memos and other available correspondence relating to the meeting held between Niall Matthews, Lakeland Dairies chairperson, and Eamon Ryan, Minister at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, at his Dáil office. The lobbying register entry shows the meeting took place between 1 January and 30 April 2024, and was published on the Lobbying.ie register on 20 May 2024. The subject of the meeting was to ‘Provide information on the work being carried out by farmers to protect water quality and inform Government of the importance of retaining the Nitrates Derogation for the national and local economy’.