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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: Nobody is arguing with the figures but the EPA is not showing the whole picture with regard to the cause of the figures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: That was based on the terms of the Commission.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: The EPA sent the recommendations based on agriculture only.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: Only.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: In that case, if my neighbour is going up the road and a bag of nitrogen bursts accidentally and a downpour washes it into the river, Dr. Cotter is basically saying that had to come from something I did in the field and not something that happened on the road.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: The EPA is specifically concentrating on agriculture in everything it has done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: I would like clarification on something that was mentioned a while ago about the rise in levels after the drought of 2018. The witnesses stated it was because farmers used extra chemical nitrogen because that was the advice that was given. Do they have scientific proof of this? Is it just because they know extra nitrogen was used and they are correlating the two? The habits of many people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: "Yes" or "No".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: Do you have scientific proof?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: Is there scientific proof? Is it a correlation because people know it happened? If something happens that people know happened and then something else happens somewhere else, it is very easy to blame one on the other. I am not saying there is not a correlation but is there scientific proof it was the cause? Many other things changed as well in the dry period. The levels of water dropped,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: It is a correlation. There is no scientific proof. It is correlation. The EPA is adding up the figures of what was spread. Are the witnesses saying, therefore, that in next year's report, because chemical nitrogen use dropped so much last year due to the price because of the war in Ukraine and because of schemes, they can nearly tell us here and now that the nitrogen level will be down...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: No, we are talking to the EPA today. We will talk to Teagasc on other occasions. The EPA are the people sending the report to the Commission. It is the EPA we are questioning today. We will have Teagasc in, no doubt, and we will make comparisons. We are talking to the EPA today and I want an answer to my question. Do the witnesses have scientific proof that what they have said is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: Based on that logic, next year the nitrogen level in the water will be down. We can all go home knowing the nitrogen levels in the water next year will go down based on how the EPA operates on that logic because we all know that chemical fertiliser was not used last year. Has the investment in Uisce Éireann over the past ten years shown an improvement in the water quality of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: It was controlling me there. I was making it worse instead of better. I must figure out how to turn it off. I will follow on from what the Cathaoirleach has said. I did not realise I was up first, but I have decided that I have only one question. I would like to give the representatives the opportunity to respond to what they have heard here this morning. I welcome the president of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Paul Daly: Science is a funny science. It can be interpreted a lot of different ways. I believe it is more of a statement. The big issue I would take from today, and the most worrying thing I would take away, would be the whole question of the lag time. Dr. O'Connell has nailed it there. They are saying we can see a change in a year, but actually we cannot. It takes longer. We have had the REAP...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister, Mr. Callanan and Mr. Massey to this debate. There has been a robust debate nationally for the last week but a time has to come where one stops flogging the dead horse and we start looking at resolution and solution-driven debates. As was mentioned, a delegation from this committee was in Brussels last week. It was evident for anyone who was there – all members...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Paul Daly: With the greatest of respect, Mr. Callanan is not answering my question. I get that total, the 80, the 92, the 106. I get that the average was at 89 kg of nitrogen and that is as close as we will get to the average. I imagine the bands were worked out from that. That 89 kg figure was calculated on the basis of there being 5 kg of nitrogen in a cu. cm of slurry. It is now down to 2.4 kg...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Paul Daly: When was it changed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Paul Daly: I appreciate that I am over time but I have one more question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Paul Daly: My question-----