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Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine: Motion (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I move: That Seanad Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine entitled 'Issues impacting the Forestry Sector in Ireland', copies of which were laid before Seanad Éireann on 2nd March, 2021. I welcome the Minister of State and Deputy Cahill to the House. As a Fianna Fáil member of the agricultural panel, I am glad that Deputy...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Bill. While the amendments may be well intentioned, I do not think it is fair to portray farmers as recklessly starting to plant trees on the areas mentioned within the amendments. There are other ways of policing this through, for instance, area aid payments or schemes that will probably be forthcoming based on the passing of this Bill. That will police this. A person will...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I lend my voice to the assertion that this is a unique and unprecedented situation. The State is closing down and making illegal an area of farming. We only have three farms in the country, all of which are rurally based. I met the people involved. One individual said that if his employees are not compensated properly and sufficiently and do not stay in that area, it will mean the loss of...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: We are debating over and back. We will not complete Committee Stage tonight and it will need to be resumed on another date. We will then have Report Stage. The three people we are discussing do not even have a date. Can we give them an indication? Once this legislation passes, the current practice of fur farming will become illegal. Once the legislation passes, they will be performing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I inform the witnesses that a vote has been called in the Dáil, but we will proceed with the meeting until the Deputies return. This will allow the witnesses an opportunity to read their statements into the record. Members have already received the statements and the Deputies will be back to put their questions. Rather than sitting around waiting for them to come back, the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: As I outlined at the outset, our colleagues who are Deputies are still caught in a voting situation. I have a few questions myself but if I ask them and then have to suspend the meeting, we are open to the possibility of repetition. If the witnesses do not mind and with their indulgence, we will suspend until our colleagues can rejoin us. We will then resume with a session of questions and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: Will both groups elaborate? I will play devil's advocate. If all their asks could be delivered, we would live on a better island, but, realistically, that cannot happen. In a concerted, genuine effort all round to achieve what we need to achieve and what the witnesses' requests are, they have very little reference to science. A problem I have with climate change is that we keep...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: What is the Environmental Pillar's opinion on food security and carbon leakage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: What is BirdWatch Ireland's opinion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: No. I meant how mechanical science and advances in mechanisation affected bird species.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the guests this evening and I have a couple of brief questions to tease out some facts from the statement. While I am a farmer and a farmer at heart, I do not want to come across as negative. I want to get to the kernel of the issue and get some more information. Depending on what one reads, we are talking about approximately 380,000 km, give or take, of hedgerow in the country....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: What distance did Dr. Moore say the recommended setback is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: Basically, Hedgerows Ireland is requesting that, if I buy into whatever scheme is coming down the line and sow my hectare of trees, I leave a 7 m gap between the hedge and my new strip of forestry.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House to discuss the Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021. Like Senator Boyhan, I also had a communication from Councillor Moriarty. I welcome her endeavours to contact all Senators on behalf of her constituents, one of whom is one of the three farmers ultimately affected by this legislation. It is agreed across...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: I wish to be associated with the remarks of colleagues on the sad passing of former Deputy, Noel Treacy. Prior to entering politics, Noel was an auctioneer and sold a lot of sheep. My father and uncle were two of his better customers, so I knew him for a long time outside politics. The Cathaoirleach rightly said, among Noel's many gifts and talents, his ability to remember faces and names...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Daly: I welcome the FCI representatives. For the record, any opportunity that I have had at any of these meetings, whether it was with the Department or whoever else, I agree wholeheartedly that it is not possible to farm by calendar and we need to avail of scientific technologies. Local knowledge is a big part of this too. I come from a fairly northern part of the country and the further north...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Daly: Is there any feedback from the contractors on whether things are improving in the forestry sector?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2021)

Paul Daly: I second Senator Martin’s proposed amendment to the Order of Business and compliment him on the fantastic Bill he is putting forward, which I have read. It is a vitally important Bill for all sporting events. Since the inception of pay-per-view television, the main source of income of many sporting organisations has been the sale of their media rights. Something needs to be done to...

Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021: Motion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Daly: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021, copies of which were laid in draft form before Seanad Éireann on 20th October, 2021.”

Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021: Motion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Daly: I am delighted to support the motion to extend the upper ceiling for the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund. I welcome the Minister and his contribution. Four minutes is a short time to speak so I will not rehash the figures and the investment into the fund, and the great role that it plays in rural Ireland. Most, if not all, horse and greyhound trainers are based in rural areas. Having a...