Results 1-20 of 110 for speaker:Paraic Brady

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I hope that chess will be recognised as a sport rather than a game. Chess is a competitive sport where two players are deeply enthralled in a mind game that takes a serious amount of concentration for a number of hours. It is a global game. It has Olympic recognition and chess has been recognised as a sport by the International Olympic Committee since 2002. It was an event at the Asian...

Seanad: Sea Fisheries: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Even just five minutes would be enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I thank all the associations here. Last weekend, I made a request for them to attend, especially the NARGC. To make it known, I am a member of the NARGC and keep hunting dogs at home. Everybody is responsible for their own dog, just to make that clear. Every dog is a pet until the pets get together and then become killing machines. Unfortunately, I keep sheep as well. I have some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Yes. Whoever wants to take them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Yes. What would Mr. Curley say in regard to the other questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Has anybody a costing of what it cost farmers last year in general, and how many prosecutions were there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Before we finish up, an area no one has touched on yet is that of the illegal hunting of hares and rabbits, or coursing, from a certain cohort of people who go in on land-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: The illegal coursing is the problem because people are going onto lands where there are sheep and worrying them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: It is sheep-worrying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I agree that is unacceptable in this day and age. Let us be quite clear on this. I hunt on horseback and I shoot. We are registered and licensed. We have dogs that are under control. They are doing what they are meant to do. They are not the problem here. Let us be quite clear on that. The National Association of Regional Game Councils, NARGC, sees that members' dogs are licensed....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Before we go, may we ask the organisations to submit a summary of what was discussed to the Chair?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Chair, will we give them ten minutes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: As was said, the regulator has dealt with the egg and the horticulture sectors to date. When do the witnesses see the regulator having the teeth to deal with the beef sector? In this sector, we have a fifth quarter, regarding the offal and the tongue, that is sold into Asian markets that a farmer in this country does not actually get paid for. There are unfair practices within the beef...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Will it be in the lifetime of this Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: It is stated that this refers to a contract of the duration of no longer than six months.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: I address the House about something that happened at the weekend. I visited Dublin last weekend to see a band called Kingfishr in Fairview Park. I compliment the Dublin councils for putting on the events they run. It makes us Irish and unique that we have such talent, including bands like Kingfishr, Amble - one of its members is from my area - The Tumbling Paddies and The Whistlin'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: I have a couple of queries on penalties, inspections and one thing and another. The BISS, CRISS, eco, BDGP, sheep welfare and arable schemes were all set up in the new offices and there is no problem with IT. However, there is a problem with forestry and ACRES out of Wexford. Will Mr. Morrin explain that to me? Second, if you have an on the spot inspection with regard to removal of trees...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: Let us say I give out 20.8 entitlements to an auctioneer in good faith. This auctioneer has a licence. He is trading under a licence with the regulator. He has the authority to lease out an entitlement. Does the responsibility not come back to the auctioneer rather than the landowner? I have employed him to lease out the entitlement. He has charged me to lease out my entitlement, so why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: They are penalised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: If an entitlement is worth €425, and you take it off somebody-----