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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Deputy Kerrane touched on an area that is a gripe of mine. I am aware that you cannot test in advance but we are a year behind, at least, with the testing. It is a year since measures, restrictions or actions were introduced. The results are 2022 results. Last year, we brought in many restrictions and actions and changed the artificial manure regulations. The war worked in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Not necessarily on water in 2022.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I presume the delegates have tried to make the argument – it will not wash – that the decision is now going to be made on a potential reduction from 250 kg per hectare to 220 kg per hectare and that the restrictions or actions that have been taken in the past year are not going to be taken into consideration. In this regard, farmers who have invested in everything they were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I get that; I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: On the flip side, Mr. Callanan has said that water has not improved across Europe-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: -----but that we are now down to only two countries with a derogation. Could Mr. Callanan explain that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Going back to my initial point, if Mr. Callanan is saying the process can take a year, when is the Department putting in the application for 2025?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: The point I am making is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: -----by the time the final decision is being made on 2025 we could be looking at water quality that is two years old and all the measures taken in between will not be taken into consideration. The Department puts in its application and it takes a year for it to be deliberated on. When the final decision is made in Europe, it could still be looking at EPA water quality reports that are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Can the officials see how farmers would be very frustrated if they are taking on these actions and then hear it is a hit-and-miss job and that even if what we are doing is working it is probably not going to influence the next application?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Would it not be a fruitful exercise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: When the research has been done, it would just be a spot check to see if there was a glaring difference between either set of results for a specific area. That might highlight or help to highlight something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I will play devil's advocate and advance a worst-case scenario. Is there any contingency plan being worked on or thought about in the Department for such a scenario? The Chairman has highlighted the potential for two creameries in north Cork and Tipperary to go and the effect that would have on jobs, those areas, farmers' incomes and ultimately food security. Is there a plan B if we cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Mr. Callanan said it himself, that kills forestry and organics and everything else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I have a brief related question and I do not know if Mr. Callanan can answer it. In any or all of the deliberations on this has the idea of genome editing or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, CRISPR, been included in the debate? I am not talking about genetic modification. CRISPR is where the genomes of similar plants are crossed to come up with a variety that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: There is, however, serious difference between editing and modification. A lot of people do not understand that. I would like to have seen it being brought in as a potential solution here or as an alternative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I thank Mr. Callanan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I agree with the proposal. I will flag that I want explained the next day how we ended up here. All I heard was, as the Chairman said, you would think it was coming back by return post. This thing was just going over to Europe for reasons related to state aid rules. Now it appears it is going over for approval of what type of soil and where. It is a complete strategy the people over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Does anyone ever do a correlation or a comparison between the results that the Teagasc group is coming up with in those specific areas and what is in the EPA data and the maps for those same specific areas? Are the results coming in the same?

Seanad: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Now.