Results 121-140 of 218 for speaker:Paraic Brady

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I raise an issue of daylight robbery, simply, and I will use that phrase. We have seen the meat processors again this week reducing the price of lamb by another 20 cent per kilogramme. Everybody knows what happened in the beef sector over the past number of years, where the same processors have brought the decline of cattle into a state where now we see almost 3,700 fewer cattle killed this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I want to get back in. Regarding the 26,000 ha of fallen trees on the ground, if we got a scheme or compensation package to go back and plant that, we would meet our targets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Regarding farmers competing with forestry companies for land, will the Minister of State comment on that? Food production is a must. If marginal land comes up for sale in north Longford or Leitrim, as Deputy Kenny said, it has a value to companies for meeting their emissions but they are competing with a farmer who is producing food. I would like the Minister of State's comment on that, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: That is a different problem now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Should the State compete with a farmer who has productive land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Will there be a scheme for small-scale planting for farmers? If I want to plant, say, four or five acres will that scheme be there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I congratulate the Minister of State on the start he has made. With the recent storm, we have seen one of the greatest disasters that has ever hit the State. It has left two and a half years of timber on the ground. The Minister of State has got off to a very good start in dealing with people and meeting them on the ground, face to face. Regarding the planting of new forests, I put a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: I congratulate all our sporting icons who took part in the World Athletics Championships. As we saw on our televisions in recent days, we have some array of talent coming on in the future. It would be remiss of me not to mention our Longford man, Cian McPhillips, who was very unlucky not to win a medal on Saturday. He is only 23 years old. He was 0.2 seconds off the bronze medal place and...

Seanad: Agricultural Sector: Motion (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: I move: That Seanad Éireann: acknowledges: - the importance of agriculture to rural Ireland and the Irish economy; - the thousands of jobs in farming, agriculture and food production sectors; - the dependency in many years on the weather to profits in farming; - the importance of food security to a growing world population; - the key role that the Common Agriculture Payment...

Seanad: Agricultural Sector: Motion (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: I thank the Minister for coming to the Chamber. As he knows, the agricultural sector is well represented in the House by me and my colleagues. The farming sector feels it is the first time it has ever had a strong voice. We are glad to have the Minister as head of the agricultural sector. Last week, the National Ploughing Championships showcased what the agricultural sector is all about,...

Seanad: Agricultural Sector: Motion (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: Duly noted.

Seanad: Agricultural Sector: Motion (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: I will give a quick summary and wrap up. I thank the Minister of State for being in the House today and the Minister, Deputy Heydon, for taking the time out. I wish him well in the negotiations. Everyone knows there will be give and take on both sides of the House to get the budget across the line. TB has been mentioned. I will clarify something in the new TB programme which people...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: I thank the witnesses for attending. I am a pet owner. I have two working dogs at home that stay in the house with the family. I know what it is like to have a property broken into because it happened to me. Thankfully, the dogs were not taken but other property was taken. As my colleagues have said, any time your property, your home or your security is breached in any way, it has a...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: Are owners ashamed to report it or is it that-----

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: I will propose something to Ms O'Connor. Every area has a dog warden.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: If my dog went missing tomorrow morning, the first place I would telephone is the pound to see if he had been taken there.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: Is there a database in local pounds of dogs that have gone missing, regardless of whether they have been reported stolen or missing?

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: There is an opportunity missed.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: There should be an onus on the pound to say, "Do you have a chip number?"