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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)

Paul Daly: It falls into category 1.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Under the proposal, will those falling into category 2 still be subject to the GMO legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)

Paul Daly: In conclusion, category 1 plants will be outside the GMO legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Category 2 plants will still be inside the GMO legislation but the GMO legislation is also going to change as part of this process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)

Paul Daly: As proposals stand at the moment, we are where we are with the European Parliament resolving a lot of it. From an Irish perspective, are the witnesses happy? Is Teagasc happy? Would it welcome what is being proposed at the minute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Nature is very resilient. All the crops we are talking about that are now suffering because of drought that we have never seen before will in time modify themselves. Basically this is about expediting that process. Foreign bodies or outside influences are not introduced. It is expediting what nature will do itself but will take a long time to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I would like further clarification. I am going back to category 1 and category 2. Category 1 is where there can be up to 20 interventions. If we accept that, could we reach a time where a crop would evolve from category 1 to category 2 and if the laws change, it would then become GMO? Am I reading that incorrectly? When this final draft comes to us or whoever and it is passed at a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Just NGT 2 plants.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)

Paul Daly: In that scenario, when this is on the table and is agreed to, it is a given that farmers will be allowed to use NGT 1 plants but it will be down to Ireland to decide if we can use NGT 2.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: It is not grouped with other amendments.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Can I take it the Senator is withdrawing the amendment with a view to reintroducing it at a later date?

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I apologise for being late to the meeting. When I came in, the Minister of State was talking to Senator Lombard about the IFFPG mid-term review. One of my questions based on that concerns a letter we received from the Minister of State's colleague, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, on 26 January. The letter stated that in the context of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: No, it was on the unidentified waste plastic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: IFFPG is collecting 88%, so it is about the 12% accumulating year after year. That 12% of the national usage of silage plastic accumulating year on year is a lot of plastic and nobody seems to know where it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Does the Minister of State have any indication as to its findings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Will the Minister of State share that desktop report with us?