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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: How is the correlation made between what is purchased and what is actually spread? For example, what would happen if I wanted to buy 20 tonnes of nitrogen in September but I had a good year and there was a chance of fertiliser prices going up again, so I decided to buy 60 tonnes because I had a few bob? We can use the day of delivery rather than the day of purchase for the example. When I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the representatives from the ICMSA. For the purpose of my questions I will play devil's advocate. Assuming this new banding is in and we have the worst case scenario, more needs to be done to highlight the consequences, not just for the farmers involved. Does the ICMSA have any idea of the impact the final result - if it is as we seem to be picking up this evening - will have on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: Will the proposed changes not happen in the North?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: That would create an uneven playing field.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: Mr. Callanan's statement was missing a page. He drifted out and drifted back in and we can see that a page was missing. I have a completely different statement from the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: I am a sucker farmer and much of the terminology referring to cow banding and so on does not come naturally to me. On the testing scenario, I cannot get my head around how we can identify bad spots or what is causing pollution. That was the case going back to the first question from Deputy Fitzmaurice. Perhaps it is my own lack of comprehension. Perhaps we could get a breakdown in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: I have one other question, which goes back to the points made by the ICMSA. Its representatives stated they are still waiting for clarification about what cow numbers will be used to determine the band. What cow numbers are used? The Department said it has a calculator on its website. What number does the farmer enter? Is it the number for the cow or a livestock unit? The ICMSA tells us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: What about replacement heifers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: Will it be used in the calculation for organic nitrogen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: Where did the reduction of the nitrogen value in a cubic metre of slurry come from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: I would appreciate it if we could get something in writing on this so I can get my head around it. In the same vein, and going back to the nitrogen value in a cubic metre of slurry, this has changed from 5 kg of nitrogen per cubic metre to 2.4 kg of nitrogen per cubic metre of slurry. Does this have ramifications for the calculation then of the overall output of the animal? It is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: Does this not impact the calculation of the 170 kg of nitrogen per hectare per year, the 220 kg of nitrogen per hectare per year or the 250 kg of nitrogen per hectare per year? Those goalposts have not changed, but that calculation was being done off 5 kg per cubic metre of slurry and now it is being said there is only 2.4 kg per cubic metre of slurry. In my ignorance, I think this must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: The 170 kg of nitrogen per hectare per year has not changed in all my time in farming.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: Yes, well, they are all the one now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: I do not know if we are on the same wavelength. My point is that 89 kg was an agreed figure, and this was being based on 5 kg of nitrogen per cubic metre of slurry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: The 89 kg is the amount of nitrogen per hectare.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: I might be wrong, but I think there must be a difference here in these calculations if we have had to reduce the figure from 5 kg of nitrogen per cubic metre of slurry to 2.4 kg of nitrogen per cubic metre of slurry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Daly: It is very funny that it changes, and that the change is only being recognised in exported slurry. If this changes, then it changes, and in my limited knowledge of the whole science of this process, then that changes the whole calculation of the 170 kg of nitrogen per hectare per year, the 220 kg of nitrogen per hectare per year or the 250 kg of nitrogen per hectare per year and the bands....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)

Paul Daly: I have some questions based on what has come before. I only find one thing more confusing than scientists talking about science and that is lawyers talking about law. In that comparative context, I am coming at this matter purely from the perspective of someone who is a farmer and who represents farmers. It is the livelihoods of farmers that we are talking about, ultimately, regardless of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the witnesses. I have three questions, one each for Dr. Rogelj and Professor Thorne and one general question. I am aware that Dr. Rogelj contributed to a session of Climate Change Advisory Council technical budgets committee. A couple of things jumped out at me when I read the committee's report and I ask him to comment on them in light of our scenario. It was stated in the...