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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: -----by the time the final decision is being made on 2025 we could be looking at water quality that is two years old and all the measures taken in between will not be taken into consideration. The Department puts in its application and it takes a year for it to be deliberated on. When the final decision is made in Europe, it could still be looking at EPA water quality reports that are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Can the officials see how farmers would be very frustrated if they are taking on these actions and then hear it is a hit-and-miss job and that even if what we are doing is working it is probably not going to influence the next application?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Would it not be a fruitful exercise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: When the research has been done, it would just be a spot check to see if there was a glaring difference between either set of results for a specific area. That might highlight or help to highlight something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I will play devil's advocate and advance a worst-case scenario. Is there any contingency plan being worked on or thought about in the Department for such a scenario? The Chairman has highlighted the potential for two creameries in north Cork and Tipperary to go and the effect that would have on jobs, those areas, farmers' incomes and ultimately food security. Is there a plan B if we cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Mr. Callanan said it himself, that kills forestry and organics and everything else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I have a brief related question and I do not know if Mr. Callanan can answer it. In any or all of the deliberations on this has the idea of genome editing or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, CRISPR, been included in the debate? I am not talking about genetic modification. CRISPR is where the genomes of similar plants are crossed to come up with a variety that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: There is, however, serious difference between editing and modification. A lot of people do not understand that. I would like to have seen it being brought in as a potential solution here or as an alternative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I thank Mr. Callanan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I agree with the proposal. I will flag that I want explained the next day how we ended up here. All I heard was, as the Chairman said, you would think it was coming back by return post. This thing was just going over to Europe for reasons related to state aid rules. Now it appears it is going over for approval of what type of soil and where. It is a complete strategy the people over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Does anyone ever do a correlation or a comparison between the results that the Teagasc group is coming up with in those specific areas and what is in the EPA data and the maps for those same specific areas? Are the results coming in the same?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I wish to be associated with the words of the Cathaoirleach on the passing of our former colleague, Brendan Daly. I extend my sympathies and condolences to the Daly family and to the Briscoe family on the death of former Deputy and Lord Mayor, Ben Briscoe. It would be remiss of me to allow the opportunity to pass without mentioning the horrific scenes that everybody witnessed last night on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I do not have that many questions because the opening statements are coming from the same perspective. I respect both of them. In any business, no matter what one is manufacturing or whatever, one's end customer determines one's product. I understand that to sell the quantities that we need to sell, we need to sell the proper qualities. The reason this is on the agenda and where it came...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I apologise for interrupting Mr. Crammond. I accept what is in the presentation about the size of the correct lamb for sale in retail but surely there is a hospitality market where it is not being sold on esthetics. That larger leg can go into a hotel which is putting up a leg of lamb in the carvery. It does not have to be advertised. Why would MII cut the price? There are different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I apologise for interrupting Mr. O'Toole. Why is it discounted? Is it discounted as part negotiating the deal in the contract because they are large-scale purchasers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Can Mr. O'Toole see where I am coming from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Why is it discounted because it is a larger animal if it is still serving the same purpose? It is still as good a quality meat, if it is cooked properly. The whole argument, which I accept, is based on the whole aesthetic side and the size of portion for going into the shopping trolley and the family oven. There is no way one can differentiate between the quality of the lamb if the lamb is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Sorry, Mr. Carroll.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I asked how the rise in exports can be correlated with downward pressure on the price for the farmer. That was my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I get what Mr. Carroll is saying. The industry is doing a good job. It is under pressure in all the markets but, as Mr. Carroll said, exports have increased. It is doing a good job in fighting off all that opposition.