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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: The EPA can identify whereabouts down along a river that the problem is starting or getting worse as it goes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: That is what I was coming at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: Approximately what length is each stretch?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: Right. I was just wondering how it is done. To ask a hypothetical, far-fetched question, going forward scientifically, can the witnesses ever see a day where there would be the potential for filtration to solve this problem?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: The problem of nitrogen, phosphates and sediments. Is it possible that filtration might solve this issue? I know this is a very hypothetical and far-fetched question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: Sometimes when it is not possible to stop something from getting polluted, it is necessary to think about how to get the pollution back out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: No, I get that. As I said, I-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: It is a hypothetical and far-fetched question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: Is there any possibility of science being able to develop some kind of filtration method with the water going through some kind of dam system? Is it the case that this is not even being thought about, explored or experimented with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: Yes. I take the point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: I thank the witnesses. That is grand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: Does the Deputy have to vote?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: On behalf of the committee, I thank the witnesses for coming and for their contributions. It is very much appreciated and will be included in our final report. The next public meeting of the committee will be at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 25 September 2024. As there are no further matters for discussion, today's meeting is adjourned.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: Before we commence, I remind Senators that a Senator may speak only once on Report Stage, the proposer of an amendment may reply to the discussion on the amendment. Also, on Report Stage each non-Government amendment must be seconded. Amendment No. 1 is in the names of Senators Craughwell, McDowell and Clonan. Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, and 15 to 20, inclusive, are related....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: I welcome Mr. Gleeson and the officials here this evening. Regarding the issue on which Senator Boyhan finished, we had a meeting about it last week. I do not have anything to add to or subtract from what I said last week. It is all out in the public domain. This evening is about the statement of strategy. I condone a lot of what Senator Boyhan said but I will not rehash last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: We are on the one wavelength. That is why I raised it under the heading of strategy. We have to change something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: While we are talking about TB, Mr. Gleeson does not have to commit himself on this but what is the Department's position on vaccination?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: Point taken.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: The Department must be watching it because it seems too much of a coincidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Daly: I fully agree. I included that point because it is something small that can be changed. It happens a good bit. A good few farmers have been on to me about it and it happened to me personally.