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Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House to discuss the Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021. Like Senator Boyhan, I also had a communication from Councillor Moriarty. I welcome her endeavours to contact all Senators on behalf of her constituents, one of whom is one of the three farmers ultimately affected by this legislation. It is agreed across...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I inform the witnesses that a vote has been called in the Dáil, but we will proceed with the meeting until the Deputies return. This will allow the witnesses an opportunity to read their statements into the record. Members have already received the statements and the Deputies will be back to put their questions. Rather than sitting around waiting for them to come back, the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: As I outlined at the outset, our colleagues who are Deputies are still caught in a voting situation. I have a few questions myself but if I ask them and then have to suspend the meeting, we are open to the possibility of repetition. If the witnesses do not mind and with their indulgence, we will suspend until our colleagues can rejoin us. We will then resume with a session of questions and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: Will both groups elaborate? I will play devil's advocate. If all their asks could be delivered, we would live on a better island, but, realistically, that cannot happen. In a concerted, genuine effort all round to achieve what we need to achieve and what the witnesses' requests are, they have very little reference to science. A problem I have with climate change is that we keep...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: What is the Environmental Pillar's opinion on food security and carbon leakage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: What is BirdWatch Ireland's opinion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: No. I meant how mechanical science and advances in mechanisation affected bird species.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the guests this evening and I have a couple of brief questions to tease out some facts from the statement. While I am a farmer and a farmer at heart, I do not want to come across as negative. I want to get to the kernel of the issue and get some more information. Depending on what one reads, we are talking about approximately 380,000 km, give or take, of hedgerow in the country....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: What distance did Dr. Moore say the recommended setback is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: Basically, Hedgerows Ireland is requesting that, if I buy into whatever scheme is coming down the line and sow my hectare of trees, I leave a 7 m gap between the hedge and my new strip of forestry.

Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine: Motion (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I move: That Seanad Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine entitled 'Issues impacting the Forestry Sector in Ireland', copies of which were laid before Seanad Éireann on 2nd March, 2021. I welcome the Minister of State and Deputy Cahill to the House. As a Fianna Fáil member of the agricultural panel, I am glad that Deputy...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Bill. While the amendments may be well intentioned, I do not think it is fair to portray farmers as recklessly starting to plant trees on the areas mentioned within the amendments. There are other ways of policing this through, for instance, area aid payments or schemes that will probably be forthcoming based on the passing of this Bill. That will police this. A person will...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I lend my voice to the assertion that this is a unique and unprecedented situation. The State is closing down and making illegal an area of farming. We only have three farms in the country, all of which are rurally based. I met the people involved. One individual said that if his employees are not compensated properly and sufficiently and do not stay in that area, it will mean the loss of...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: We are debating over and back. We will not complete Committee Stage tonight and it will need to be resumed on another date. We will then have Report Stage. The three people we are discussing do not even have a date. Can we give them an indication? Once this legislation passes, the current practice of fur farming will become illegal. Once the legislation passes, they will be performing...

Seanad: Life Saving Equipment Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I also welcome the community first responders. I compliment my colleagues who have worked to keep this Bill alive and see it through to its fruition. It would have been detrimental if the Bill ended when our former colleague, Dr. Keith Swanick, decided not to run for election the last time. Senator Wilson mentioned the contribution of Cathal Joyce in the AV room. I was at that game in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I compliment Senator Boylan on raising this issue. I concur with the Chairman's statement. I was horrified reading Dr. Kirby's statement. This is not to question its content in any way, all of which I accept. We had submissions from the Department and the Veterinary Council of Ireland, VCI. I took it that both of them were going to be here this evening. The questions I had prepared were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the witnesses. Great minds think alike in that Deputy Fitzmaurice has already covered many of the issues I had intended to raise to educate my own ignorance about the crop and its harvesting. Leaving aside the regulation, it appears we have a chicken-and-egg scenario here. Farmers will not grow unless there is a market and without the infrastructure and the processing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: Importation was mentioned earlier. I presume that is processed materials such as the blocks mentioned. Are we bringing in hemp for protein? Is it non-processed hemp? It was mentioned it is being processed elsewhere and that it is acceptable here in a processed form, but it is not accepted that we could process it here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: If the witnesses had one or two asks here today, would it be for this crop to be recognised as an agricultural product and be taken away from the Department of Health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: You would assume the rest, such as the infrastructure, would follow. If there is infrastructure, the growers will come on stream. The kernel of the problem is how it is being deal with.