Results 41-60 of 128 for long speaker:Paul Daly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Paul Daly: ..., and the €1.3 billion in funding, when it was announced. We were beginning to see improvement and progress in licensing. The correspondence I received regarding forestry started dwindling. Along with many others, I thought we were on the road to getting the confidence to which I refer back and that we had turned a corner. Unfortunately, it was one step forward and two steps...

Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Motion (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Daly: .... I concur with what the Minister said in his conclusion about the scrutiny this budget Vote gets annually. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and we had a long meeting where each and every aspect of this funding was discussed with the Minister and the officials of the Department. It has also been discussed in the Dáil and now it is here for...

Seanad: Forestry: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Paul Daly: ...and biodiversity challenges. We have not come anywhere close to harnessing the potential therein because of the aforementioned issues and problems. Hopefully, this new forestry programme will go a long way towards getting things back on track albeit that the programme is still out for public consultation and by virtue of the fact the moneys mentioned are from the Exchequer, we must still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Schemes: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Daly: ...not to abuse this privilege and may be directed to cease giving evidence on an issue at the Chair's direction. Witnesses should follow the direction of the Chair in this regard and are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that, as is reasonable, no adverse commentary should be made against an identifiable third person or entity. Witnesses giving evidence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Schemes: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Daly: ...have massive population growth, even within the food-secure regions. At the present time, there are large areas of the world that do not have food security and large numbers of people who are hungry. After all that long-winded effort to ask the question, I will ask a simple question. How does Teagasc see, based on the CAP that is before us, that we can get to that happy halfway house...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: ...to install solar panels, up to a maximum expenditure limit of €90,000, and believe the initiative is brilliant. However, by virtue of the fact that the money is EU money, with associated rules along the lines of state aid rules, the EU has stipulated that the electricity produced by grant-aided panels may be used only on the farm on which it is generated. This eliminates the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: ...is getting full value for it. The terms and conditions of the scheme stipulate that farmers cannot supply energy to any organisation outside their holding. Those requirements were probably penned long before the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia and before many of the problems we have today arose. The matter needs to be revisited and we need to be to the fore in asking if it can be...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Issues (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: ...people could not get builders because of the lockdown. Two years were basically lost in every sphere of life and some people are still in the situation of having Covid-related health issues, be it long-Covid or whatever. It has put a stall to their gallop, to coin a phrase. They may get started but at the moment the conditions state they must have a reasonable amount of work done and in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Issues (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: ...for extensions to planning permissions across the board. We are all aware of the two years we just had. People are trying to get back to normality. While a five-year window may sound like a long time, it becomes a very narrow window when the two years of the pandemic are subtracted, especially in cases where people's circumstances have changed. There is a case for giving consideration...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: ...able to give us numbers and percentages for the drop-off in sales when antimicrobial medicines became prescription-only. They stated that intramammary sales alone are down 90%. They have come a long way in meeting the Department since their first visit here. The major issue is with the claim that the regulation will be implemented but the implementation will avoid anti-competitiveness...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: ...member who might not be near as intense, and they will put fertiliser on their register. That potential is there. I am not saying they will and I am not denigrating people or practices, but as long as you are only recording the purchase and not what is actually being spread on a particular holding, there are a few windows of opportunity there for it to be abused.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: Has Teagasc done much research work on antiparasitic resistance? How long does it to take to identify it if someone is dosing or treating a herd with a product? Does it happen gradually or would administering the product have no result in the second year? How long would take to detect, with the naked or untrained eye or even by professionals, that there is a problem and there has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Priorities for Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: ..., and who may not have a horse that will catch they eye of the person with the voucher in the sales? It is still costing them as much to get to the sale or to the racetrack, as it does the successful one. This is a long-winded way of explaining it but can HRI spread the butter a bit thinner across the sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: I have just a couple more brief questions. They will not be as long-winded. We discussed the authorised officers a lot the last time the witnesses were before us. We also discussed training of the authorised officers and a training manual. I think the Department was to give training. The witnesses can correct me if I am wrong about the following. Was there an incident recently in which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: I appreciate getting back in. I did not want to speak for too long at the start as I was conscious other members wanted to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing in Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's Anti-doping Programme: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Daly: Believe you me, it was not long. I have a few questions mainly for the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board on its inspections. Is there a vet present at every inspection?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 and the Control of Dogs Act 1986: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Paul Daly: We have been dealing with this for a long time. This is my second term on the agriculture committee. If I had just happened to drop in here today and this was all new to me, I would find it very confusing that one minute we are mentioning local authorities, which house local government, and the next we are referring to the Departments of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Rural and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for the Greyhound Industry: Rásaíocht Con Éireann (25 May 2022)

Paul Daly: ...that Greyhound Racing Ireland has six foster care homes and that two more are in the tender process. Are many more places showing interest? Certain individuals have contacted me to state that it is a prolonged, slow process and it takes a long time to get a premises through that tender. More people might be willing to become foster care homes if the paraphernalia about being accepted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Paul Daly: ...for fibre. If it is to be a feasible and viable crop that yields a return, he or she is going to have to be able to sell, process and utilise the entire crop to maximise his or her income. As long as it falls under the misuse of drugs regulations, the Department will not be able to influence or change matters in that regard. How are we going to square that circle to make this crop a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Paul Daly: ...still cannot get the maximum potential output from the crop grown from that seed because the HPRA will not license anything with any trace in it at all. The point I am trying to get is that, as long is this falls under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2017, the agricultural potential is limited.