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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: Is there alternative science to the science Dr. McGoff is quoting? In any argument, there are two sides. You can read an article today and think it is convincing and tomorrow you could read an article on the other side of the argument and it can be equally as convincing. I am not a scientist but for the purpose of conversation, my layman’s theory on it would be that the cow...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: Does Dr. McGoff have access to any studies – I know it will probably be Teagasc again, and I presume we will have Teagasc in – on the amount of nitrates in our water that are coming through drainage from land or that are coming from animals still being allowed into water courses to drink and doing their business while they are in there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: If the Chair does not mind, I have one more question. In this whole debate, the study we are doing is to put a report together with regard to the derogation going forward. At what point of the discussion does food security come into play? We have the farmer side and we have the witnesses’ side. Leaving the fact that both sides have a serious and vested interest, Joe Public is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: We need to bring that element into the conversation. We seem to be having conversations that are polar.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: The purpose of this whole exercise from a farming perspective is food production and it never gets a mention in the conversation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: Is Ms Dubsky talking about drinking water?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: Does or could purification for drinking water remove the nitrates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: When the water gets to the point of being drinking water, it has gone through the purification system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: If we were talking about streams here, okay, but is drinking water not treated? Does the treatment process not address the nitrate content?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: I am talking about public drinking water.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: We are talking about public drinking water. Is it not part of the process for the purification of drinking water that nitrates are taken out or neutralised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: I would imagine that is the case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: It is not desirable from the point of view of any of us that nitrates would be going into the water but I would be very surprised if they were then in the water that people drink when it comes out of the purification system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: My question is about purification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: It should be happening.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: I also welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber this afternoon. I raise an issue today with regard to the warmer homes scheme. As she is no doubt aware, the Government's climate action plan was published in November 2021. Among many other very welcome schemes, it included the warmer homes scheme. I have been contacted by a constituent. I would like to put on record the correspondence...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister of State’s response and I welcome and appreciate the facts she mentioned with regard to the increased spend and the reduction of six months. However, the reduction of six months to 20 months is still unacceptable. I also welcome the fact that new staff are being recruited. This needs to happen. The bottom line on this is we can all say we are delighted about...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hedge Cutting (22 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Thomas Byrne. I thank him for his attendance. I know he is taking this Commencement matter on behalf of the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. It took a little while for me to track down where I needed to go with this request because, while this is an agricultural practice and an...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hedge Cutting (22 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: I appreciate the answer the Minister of State was provided with. He mentioned limited exceptions, which I know includes roadside safety. If there is a safety issue, hedges can be trimmed during the off-season. He also mentioned, and it is in the Wildlife Act, that one of the limited exceptions is "in the ordinary course of agriculture". I ask the Minister of State to get back to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: I apologise for not having been here from the outset, although I do not think I will get many critics on the other side of the table regarding where I was. I was raising a Commencement matter in the Seanad looking for a temporary extension to the hedge-cutting season due to the current saturation of land, so I do not think they will scold me for attending to that as opposed to being here. ...