Irish Seed Savers: some good news, more needed

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Irish Seed Savers: some good news, more needed

As has been widely shared on social and other media, the Irish Seed Savers are in financial trouble. A campaign has developed to save the Irish Seed Savers, and it seems that progress is starting to be made. Here are two very recent examples.

After months of mild encouragement, GIY have, finally, started to stock seeds from the Irish Seed Savers. This is great news as GIY's reach is far greater than that of the Seed Savers.

Twice in written answers in the Dail this month, Minister Simon Coveney has announced a small change in funding for the Irish Seed Savers, (subject to EU Commission approval).

While the funding has been going down each year since 2011 - from E149,564 to E100,000 in 2013 - he announced a rise to E115,000, on two occasions, in the Dáil in recent days.

Here are his exact words: "my Department is positively disposed to continuing its relationship with ISSA and in this regard has provisionally set an increased allocation of €115,000 for the current year. However, funding under the Conservation of Genetic Resources Scheme, which includes payments to ISSA, is subject to EU State Aid rules. Confirmation of the renewal of State Aid approval for this Scheme is awaited from the European Commission and no definitive allocation can be made until this process is completed"

TD's Clare Daly and and Joe Carey asked these questions (23rd Jan and 16th Jan respectively - no link to Daly's question seems to be available yet, an email alert informed me, but in substance it is similar to Carey's quesiton. More importantly, the reply, both times, mentions the E115000)

While this is progress, nevertheless it is NOT ENOUGH to fully and comprehensively save the organisation.

What can you do?

Visit the Irish Seed Savers page and sign up for something that costs money! Like a membership! Its that simple :-)

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