Results 181-200 of 2,176 for speaker:Paul Daly
- Seanad: Protection of Private Residencies (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Paul Daly: I ask the Senator to address the matter at hand. I am not going back to Second Stage speeches. I just gave the Senator the opportunity to say a few words.
- Seanad: Protection of Private Residencies (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Paul Daly: I thank Senator Higgins. I call Senator Carrigy.
- Seanad: Protection of Private Residencies (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Paul Daly: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?
- Seanad: Protection of Private Residencies (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Protection of Private Residencies (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Paul Daly: When is it proposed to sit again?
- Seanad: Protection of Private Residencies (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: I thank the representatives of the Department for appearing this evening. There is not a whole lot to ask. They have everything in here, and it is what it is. We are not going to change it now. On the GAEC 8 changes, I will be 60 shortly. CAP has been around a long time and I have been listening to talk about simplifying CAP for as long as I remember or understood or knew what it was. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Is that they do not need to meet the 4% requirement anymore?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: This would have been an issue for large arable farmers who did not have hedgerows prior to this change.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: I have one final question. If the change is welcome in the context of simplifying things for farmers from the Department's perspective, for the farmers themselves, this change is coming mid-stream. I am not being critical when I say this but just stating a fact. Payments were late and the answer given was that this happened because of the Department's computer system and technology and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: I thank the witnesses and warmly welcome them. In contrast to the remarks of my good friend and colleague on slowing this down in any way, I would suggest the opposite. It was at my invitation that we had the group in here over a year ago to discuss this matter. What came from that and the evidence given by those people, including Teagasc, was the need for what we are discussing. Even...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: It falls into category 1.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Under the proposal, will those falling into category 2 still be subject to the GMO legislation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: In conclusion, category 1 plants will be outside the GMO legislation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Category 2 plants will still be inside the GMO legislation but the GMO legislation is also going to change as part of this process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: As proposals stand at the moment, we are where we are with the European Parliament resolving a lot of it. From an Irish perspective, are the witnesses happy? Is Teagasc happy? Would it welcome what is being proposed at the minute?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Nature is very resilient. All the crops we are talking about that are now suffering because of drought that we have never seen before will in time modify themselves. Basically this is about expediting that process. Foreign bodies or outside influences are not introduced. It is expediting what nature will do itself but will take a long time to do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: I would like further clarification. I am going back to category 1 and category 2. Category 1 is where there can be up to 20 interventions. If we accept that, could we reach a time where a crop would evolve from category 1 to category 2 and if the laws change, it would then become GMO? Am I reading that incorrectly? When this final draft comes to us or whoever and it is passed at a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Just NGT 2 plants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: In that scenario, when this is on the table and is agreed to, it is a given that farmers will be allowed to use NGT 1 plants but it will be down to Ireland to decide if we can use NGT 2.