Results 61-80 of 218 for speaker:Paraic Brady

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: I do not need a question. I got my questions. Let Mr. Canning finish that, please.

Seanad: Budget 2026 (Finance): Statements (7 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: The Minister of State is very welcome. I welcome the capital budget for agriculture. The Minister, Deputy Heydon, has secured an additional €170 million in budget 2026. That is a 9% increase, from €158 million last year to €170 million this year, bringing the Department's budget to over €2.3 billion. This includes a capital programme of €335 million....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: I welcome the Commissioner. I too am a farmer. I farm sheep and suckler cows. In 1973, when we joined the EEC, now the EU, the population of our national herd was the same as it is today. We talk about environmental impacts and so on, but our national herd has not grown. It has actually diminished over the past number of years. When we talk about a green product and a green way of life,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: I welcome the Commissioner. I too am a farmer. I farm sheep and suckler cows. In 1973, when we joined the EEC, now the EU, the population of our national herd was the same as it is today. We talk about environmental impacts and so on, but our national herd has not grown. It has actually diminished over the past number of years. When we talk about a green product and a green way of life,...

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

Paraic Brady: I would like to be associated with all of the comments about Senator Andrews. I would also like to discuss the Ryder Cup and what Europe achieved in the past week. We are proud of one of our own who made the final putt to secure the Ryder Cup for the European team. It is very special and will live not only in the minds of every golfer in Ireland but in the European team to have had such...

Seanad: Agricultural Sector: Motion (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: I move: That Seanad Éireann: acknowledges: - the importance of agriculture to rural Ireland and the Irish economy; - the thousands of jobs in farming, agriculture and food production sectors; - the dependency in many years on the weather to profits in farming; - the importance of food security to a growing world population; - the key role that the Common Agriculture Payment...

Seanad: Agricultural Sector: Motion (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: I thank the Minister for coming to the Chamber. As he knows, the agricultural sector is well represented in the House by me and my colleagues. The farming sector feels it is the first time it has ever had a strong voice. We are glad to have the Minister as head of the agricultural sector. Last week, the National Ploughing Championships showcased what the agricultural sector is all about,...

Seanad: Agricultural Sector: Motion (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: Duly noted.

Seanad: Agricultural Sector: Motion (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: I will give a quick summary and wrap up. I thank the Minister of State for being in the House today and the Minister, Deputy Heydon, for taking the time out. I wish him well in the negotiations. Everyone knows there will be give and take on both sides of the House to get the budget across the line. TB has been mentioned. I will clarify something in the new TB programme which people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: I am sorry I missed the presentation. Our product in Ireland has always been known as Irish and green. We are known to have a clean, environmental way of farming. I am a suckler sheep farmer. We depend on grain to feed weanlings and feed cows and sheep during the winter. In regard to grain growers, how much of the product is forward bought by processors here? Can I have some comments on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: As the witnesses rightly pointed out, we have seen a decline in the national herd. We are back at record levels, since we joined the EU in 1973. At this moment, we are at 6.9 million head. That is due to a decline in the farming industry, which has reduced our carbon emissions through stealth, as I call it. While we have done low-emission slurry spreading and seen the scientific facts at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: I will come back in on what Mr. Murphy said about smaller carcases. Kepak was at the National Ploughing Championships. It has carried out trials where schools were incentivised to raise calves from calf to beef and the animals could be killed at a certain carcase weight. I have reservations in this regard. It will certainly meet that demand for the produce of the dairy sector. However,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Paraic Brady: Sorry.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: I thank the witnesses for attending. I am a pet owner. I have two working dogs at home that stay in the house with the family. I know what it is like to have a property broken into because it happened to me. Thankfully, the dogs were not taken but other property was taken. As my colleagues have said, any time your property, your home or your security is breached in any way, it has a...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: Are owners ashamed to report it or is it that-----

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: I will propose something to Ms O'Connor. Every area has a dog warden.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: If my dog went missing tomorrow morning, the first place I would telephone is the pound to see if he had been taken there.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: Is there a database in local pounds of dogs that have gone missing, regardless of whether they have been reported stolen or missing?

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: There is an opportunity missed.