Results 41-60 of 2,307 for speaker:Paul Daly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: I apologise for missing the start but I was in the Seanad Chamber. I hope I do not repeat what has gone before. I will pursue what was said by Deputies Smith and Connolly. Before I entered the House, I was the first and only employee of a company 30-odd years ago. In that scenario, you make the coffee, do accounts, fix the machines and sweep the floor. You need somebody and could provide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: The type of lad I am talking about puts the Revenue letter in the bin.

Seanad: Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: Motion (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Daly: Senator Kelleher made me think with his comment about his son. I am also an Arsenal fan and I was also wondering if Saka is fit for the weekend, and then it made me think how can I be wondering or worrying about something so unimportant in the big picture of what is going on in Gaza. Senator Kelleher put it very well. Not as a Senator or as a public representative but as a human being, I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Daly: I attended the National Ploughing Championships last week, which were a fantastic success. I congratulate the National Ploughing Association on the fantastic annual event it holds, in particular its well-known managing director Anna May McHugh. With the season that is in it as we approach a presidential election, one could nearly say Anna May is the best president we never had. The success...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Daly: I welcome the officials. They are often here in an us-and-them scenario. However, I accept, as I think everybody out there does, that we are all on the one side on this issue. There is nothing to be gained from us arguing with them or telling them what they already know. I accept the bona fides of the Department and Minister. I have discussed the issue at length with the Taoiseach and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Daly: Sorry to interrupt but my time is nearly up. Would that not be taken into consideration? For want of a better phrase, let us call them laboratory conditions. I remember from my own college days that, if one is doing a test, one takes the variables into consideration. If there is low flow, one factors that into the results. We seem to blame the farmer and it does not matter whether there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Daly: I mentioned the correlation between stocking numbers when we were finishing up previously; we just ran out of time. I accept the point about the different flow and everything but with the previous derogation - I am possibly blinkered on this at times because I am a farmer - we had a mid-term review done in 2023 that resulted in people being reduced from a derogation of 250 kg N/ha to 220 kg...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Daly: -----but there has to be somewhere where the science becomes political or the politics becomes science. Will the final decision be political? With the support of 26 or 27 states needed to get this over the line, there has to be an amount of politics involved. Will the officials give us an indication as to where that line is between the science and the politics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Daly: I am asking the witnesses based on their experience.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Daly: Would a by-product of anaerobic be worth considering?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Daly: I welcome the officials this evening. I want to be associated with the congratulations to Ms McPhillips. I wish her the best of luck going forward and look forward to working with her. It is likely that Mercosur will dominate proceedings here this evening. I will start there also. I am not opposed to Mercosur. I am not opposed to any trade deal. We are an open economy and Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Daly: That is prime cuts, though. It is not just 99,000 tonnes of beef.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Daly: I do not think there is a higher standard of production of beef in the world than the EU standards, so we cannot lose on that one.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Daly: At this evening's meeting of the committee on agriculture, various farm bodies will attend to discuss farm safety, mental health and farmers' mental health and well-being. In previous years in the Seanad there were statements on farm safety during Farm Safety Week. I do not know what has moved but last year and again this year Farm Safety Week has fallen during our summer recess. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farm Safety: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Daly: I welcome our witnesses. I have been very active in the area of farm safety. Some colleagues will be aware that I have a Bill in the system. It is well buried but it has not gone away. It provides for establishing a farm safety agency in the same way as we have a road safety agency. I do think that is the way to go but we will not waste any time on that today. To Ms Rohan, I cannot say...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farmer Mental Health and Well-being: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Daly: I welcome Teagasc and the IFA. I am a client of Teagasc and a member of the IFA. For those of us who are neither, how do we get to those organisations? They are both doing great work and providing great information for their membership and clients. The vulnerable person out there is most likely someone who is not a member of an organisation, not going to IFA meetings and will not be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farmer Mental Health and Well-being: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Daly: I will allow the remaining two members for two minutes each and our witnesses can answer everything in a wrap-up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farmer Mental Health and Well-being: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Daly: There were a number of questions there. We will have a final wrap-up because we are conscious of the fact we have another item to do and we have to be out of this room before 6 p.m.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Daly: At the outset, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Councillor Aoife Davitt on becoming the first female cathaoirleach of the county council of my native Westmeath. As we all know, Aoife is a sister of our colleague Senator Davitt. It is annual general meeting time for the councils, so I congratulate and wish all incoming cathaoirligh the very best of good luck and...

Seanad: Sea Fisheries: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Daly: I was at a meeting of the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight and I left because I did not want to miss the opportunity to attend the Minister of State's first visit back to the Seanad. As a former Member, colleague and good friend in the previous Seanad, I want to welcome him and wish him the best of luck in his new role. I know the portfolio is in capable hands but it is a...