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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: I suggest that Mr. Curley will answer the questions posed by Deputy Browne when the Deputies return. As the Chairman has explained, Senator Dolan and I will ask questions and if we get answers then I will suspend the meeting until the Deputies return. Like Deputy Fitzmaurice, I am trying to get my head around this matter. Mr. Curley is very well versed and knowledgeable about this matter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: It will not be when wetted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: Mr. Curley is saying the emphasis will be on arable land and that if somebody sets grass, it will be accepted as restoration. Am I picking him up correctly on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: Consider the case of land that has been in grass for the past 20 to 50 years, for sheep or other livestock, and that has peaty soil although it has never had turf harvested from it commercially or otherwise. Is that land part of the land being targeted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: So, what happens the man who already has land in grass? Is Mr. Curley saying that a man who agrees to put grass cover on land that he is currently tilling will be returning it to a state in which it will capture carbon?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: I do not wish Mr. Curley to get me wrong. I am not in any way attempting to shoot the messenger. I am asking these questions to get my own head around the issue. I know we are probably on the one page. Will land that is already drained and used for grazing not be far less poached than land that is wetted and still used for grazing? A lot more carbon could be released if the water level...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: It kind of makes sense. None of it makes sense and it all makes sense, if you know what I mean. When we started out today, having read Mr. Curley's presentation, and when Deputy Fitzmaurice was asking his questions, I was happy that because we have so many commercial Bord na Móna bogs out of commission, we could have met all our targets. Now Mr. Curley is saying only 20% of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: Why would that be? One would imagine that if the idea is to hold carbon or improve biodiversity, the Bord na Móna bogs are the ones that need to be targeted. When Mr. Curley said only 20% of the land could be Bord na Móna owned, it sounded to me as if the measure was almost specifically designed to target agriculture.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: We will wait until Deputy Fitzmaurice comes back for Mr. Curley to go through the timelines. This might sound of the radar to Mr. Curley. The land I am talking about, which is probably the same in his situation, is at home where my father, God be good to him, got EU money to drain it. Now, depending on where the funding is coming from, be it compensation or otherwise, it sounds as though...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: I will go back on what Mr. Curley said there a minute ago. Is there a possibility that restoration to original quality could mean deforestation on peatlands where there had been forestry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: I was in the Chair earlier when the Deputies were away. Deputy Fitzmaurice must have been detained because we brought up this issue and Mr. Curley said he would wait until Deputy Fitzmaurice came back because the Deputy had asked about it. As Deputy Fitzmaurice must have been detained Mr. Curley will probably have to go through it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: Deputy Fitzmaurice must have been detained. Mr. Curley can fire ahead with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: I appreciate that it is not Mr. Curley's brief, but I wish to ask about international trade agreements with the EU and whether we will import foodstuffs in particular from areas we do not expect to meet the same kind of standards that will be set in the new laws. I refer specifically to the importation of food from Brazil where I presume they will still be removing rainforests at the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: Has the ILMA engaged with the Department on this?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Issues (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome and thank the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, for coming in to take this Commencement matter. I will read the Commencement matter again to highlight some issues in it. It is to request that the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage would relax the conditions for the extension of planning permission for one-off housing under section 42(1)(b) of the Planning and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Issues (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: The response was informative but not very positive in respect of my query. I ask the Minister of State again if this matter could be addressed. I am not looking for extensions to planning permissions across the board. We are all aware of the two years we just had. People are trying to get back to normality. While a five-year window may sound like a long time, it becomes a very narrow...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: I too welcome the Smith family and compliment the Leader and Senator Seery Kearney. As someone who has a little angel of a sister whom I never actually had the pleasure of meeting, I was very moved by Senator Seery Kearney's contribution. Some 50 years later, I still try to live her life in my head and my imagination and to think about where she would be now and how things would have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials to the meeting. As he quite rightly said in his opening statement, this is the second time the committee has addressed this issue. We have already met all of the stakeholders on a couple of occasions and compiled a report. We are now compiling a second report as part of the pre-legislative scrutiny process. Everyone who has appeared...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: From what I heard this evening, if one is on the outside looking in and not as well versed as we are on this subject after our series of meetings over two years then it would seem that a 12-month prescription is a lifeline for merchants, pharmacists and co-operatives. In reality, and for clarity, all that we can put into legislation or regulation is that a prescription can be "up to 12...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: I talked about antiparasitic treatments and everyone accepts the requirement regarding an antimicrobial prescription.