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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.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: It is not grouped with other amendments.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Can I take it the Senator is withdrawing the amendment with a view to reintroducing it at a later date?

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I apologise for being late to the meeting. When I came in, the Minister of State was talking to Senator Lombard about the IFFPG mid-term review. One of my questions based on that concerns a letter we received from the Minister of State's colleague, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, on 26 January. The letter stated that in the context of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: No, it was on the unidentified waste plastic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: IFFPG is collecting 88%, so it is about the 12% accumulating year after year. That 12% of the national usage of silage plastic accumulating year on year is a lot of plastic and nobody seems to know where it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Does the Minister of State have any indication as to its findings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Will the Minister of State share that desktop report with us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Giving its content the benefit of the doubt, we are talking about 95%, so there is still a shortfall of 5%. Based on figures we calculated here previously, that is the equivalent of 2,000 tonnes still unaccounted for. That is a lot of plastic to be going into a wheelie bin to be honest. I am not being smart or flippant. It has to be out there somewhere. The bones of my question follows...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: It gets that levy on all plastic that is sold. When the silage season starts in May this year, people will buy their plastic. The levy is taken from the farmer when he pays for it, and it works its way back to IFFPG. That is May 2024. That plastic then sits around the bale of silage until next winter, possibly until almost this time next year if it is a year like last year. It then works...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Yes. Along with the levy, the company's other source of income is the collection charge. It has doubled the charge per tonne, which is an inhibitor. That is where some of the 5% is going because it is becoming an expensive pastime to deliver this plastic to depots. IFFPG had to double that charge because it knows where its balance sheet is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I have no doubt that is not an issue. I am a farmer and am happy with the scheme as a farmer, but as a Senator and public representative, based on our previous meetings, I am anything but happy with where I see the process going. It is a time bomb that is ticking and we need to get to the bottom of it, based on evidence we have received here before.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Does the Minister of State or Department have any idea how much plastic is stockpiled around the country on which the levy and collection fee have been collected but which has not been recycled or shifted? It is sitting stockpiled in yards. Has the Minister of State any idea of the tonnage that might be out there?