World Bee Day marked by Laois Offaly Senator and Laois Offaly Wildlife Trust Reporter: 20 May 2021 Minister Hackett and Barry Delany, Senior Inspector, Horticulture and Plant Health in Kildare to mark World Bee Day. '); '); Super junior Laois Offaly Minister of State Pippa Hackett has visited a bee laboratory for World Bee Day today Thursday May 20. The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Senator Hackett visited the department's Bee Health laboratory at the Backweston Campus in Kildare. The Department provides a bee health service, free of charge, facilitating the early detection of pests and pathogens which is key to maintaining healthy stock of bees in Ireland.