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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...

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

Paul Daly: Deputy Carthy has covered the majority of what I was going to say. From the answers the Departments have given, they have no idea at the moment how they can achieve 22%. How in God's name can they justify 22.01% at the end of negotiations when they do not know how they will achieve 22%? They are depending on emerging sciences and technologies and tests that are only at inception stage. As...

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

Paul Daly: Through the Chair, I never mentioned anything about individual sectors or singling out sectors. I asked a simple question regarding to how the Departments propose reaching or can justify more than 22%. I am totally opposed to this sector versus sector thing that Mr. Kierans is bringing up but it was not mentioned in my contribution. This is the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture,...

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

Paul Daly: Mr. Kierans keeps going on about the importance of setting ambitious targets. My point is that it is far more important to set achievable targets than to be the top kid in the class who always has his or her hand up but does not know the answer. His narrative is so obvious in terms of ambitious targets. An ambitious target is useless if it is not achievable. We need to change that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the witnesses this evening from the CCPC. As Senator Boyhan said, I thank them for their submission and opening statement. I have no doubt we will be taking their suggestions on board when we draw up our final report. I have enough information in that regard. I will ask the witnesses do that which is somewhat impossible - to look into the future for the purposes of debate and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Paul Daly: In conclusion, to go back over that again, the CCPC is maintaining responsibility for perceived or actual cartels?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Paul Daly: If somebody perceives a cartel in an agricultural supply chain, whatever the product might be, and I do not want to name individual areas because that can lead to outside debate, it will bypass the new body and still will go to the CCPC. Even though it is in the agriculture sector and has almost definitively been identified in layman's terms that it is 100% obvious there is a cartel, it will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Paul Daly: I will finish on this. Does Mr. McHugh not think people watching the debate this evening would almost assume even by virtue of its title that the office for fairness and transparency in the agrifood supply chain, and Mr. McHugh keeps using the cartel example, that this will come under that umbrella?