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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I welcome the representatives from the Department. To follow on, the current system has been in operation since 1998 and it has evolved over a period to where we are today. While we cannot change the system here overnight does the Department, as the Department with responsibility for the environment, appreciate that the 30% of plastic waste on which there is no obligation on the IFFPG to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: To follow on from that, a good year for the IFFPG was 80% collection. It claimed that today and the last day. Its representatives are almost shouting from the rooftops that they hit 80%. That leaves 20% of the recorded plastic unaccounted for now the private contractors have gone out of the market. That is not to mention the illegal plastic, for want of a better word, that is coming in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: As a nation we all welcomed it because if they had not filled the gap we would have had in the region of 23 years where our 20% of our plastic was in bogholes, down boreens, in ditches and getting burned. I certainly welcome the role they played for the last 23-odd years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I will pursue that point with Mr. McDonald. For the purposes of debate, could we park what is stockpiled and wind the clock forward to the 2021 baling and silaging season? The private contractors, as we all know now, are gone off the pitch. The IFFPG is going to collect 75% to 80% of the plastic. When there are no private contractors on the pitch, who is responsible for the disposal or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: The IFFPG has been in existence and has been doing this for 23 years. As its management is singing from the rooftops about hitting 80% collection, I do not know how it is going to get to 100% magically in one year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I apologise to the Chairman for taking up a lot of time, but in conclusion, the IFFPG contract is renewed every five years. As Mr. McDonald said himself it got a new five-year rollover approval last year. When that is happening, is that position put out to public tender? When the Department is rewriting the group's contract every five years or reviewing its performance for approval of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: Is it advertised though, or put out to public tender? Could somebody else apply? Is it a done deal every five years, a box-ticking exercise, or is it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: -----publicly advertised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: To conclude then, the approval is not advertised. It is just a roll-over exercise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I welcome our guests and I will desist from wishing Professor Boyle bon voyageagain. As this is the third time we have met since I first did so, I will desist today. I have some broad-ranging questions on which both groups might comment.I also have some specific questions for Bord Bia and Teagasc. Broadly speaking, we had a discussion last week with the organic organisations and the farm...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I welcome the officials from the Department and thank them for their contribution and their submission. I will be brief because, as the Chairman said, we are running low on time. I would like some comment from the Department on the number of people who might leave organics, having gone through the conversion system and got onto the scheme. I seek the figures from the Department. I have...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, to the House for this Second Stage debate on the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021. I do not like having to do speak to people from behind and I would not like it to appear that I am speaking down on anybody because I am certainly not doing that. I am unable to change the lay-out of the Chamber or my allocated seat....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the comprehensive submissions they have given us. I have a few points on which I would like them to elaborate over and above the information they have included in their submissions. My big question is based on my observations of the organic schemes to date. We hear all the bells and whistles about the scheme being opened up again, and that it will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I thank the witnesses for attending today and for their submissions. I have a few questions. Some of what I intended to ask has already been covered and dealt with efficiently. On the organic growers' submission, I have a question concerning the sourcing of organic seed for the sector post Brexit. I ask for more elaboration on that. Could there potentially be a future for Ireland in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I welcome all the representatives from the various farming bodies. Many of the issues have been covered. To use a badly used phrase, we are where we are and nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. Any CAP negotiations or agreements I recall have all started out with the promise that it will be a simpler CAP. That has never happened in any CAP. If we are to go on that premise, God...

Seanad: Right to Housing: Motion (4 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I do not think I will need the full time because most of what I have to say has already been covered. I also compliment Senator Fitzpatrick who has taken her brief in the housing role to an extreme. Her work ethic and dedication to the cause has been second to nobody I have known in these Houses since my first election in 2016.She has a weekly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I welcome the witnesses. I thank Senator Boylan for making sure this issue was raised in the committee. Sometimes time is very limited and we all have our own priorities. As a farmer, this issue would probably not have been top of my priority list so I compliment Senator Boylan for making sure it was raised here today. Earlier in the year, I raised in the Seanad the issue of sheep...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I am sorry for jumping in, but through the Chairman can I ask for clarity? Are we differentiating here between thoroughbreds and crossbreeds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I welcome our guests. As the Chair said earlier, we need to seek clarification on the numbers of unregistered horses that have been mentioned because I would question that. There may be confusion between the categorisation of thoroughbred, non-thoroughbred or whatever. Thoroughbred foals that will be registered eventually do not have to be registered until 31 December of the year of their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: For the record, I am a thoroughbred owner and a member of owners' groups. Some very strong statements have been made about medicines being bought on one horse identification licence and being administered to another horse. That may be the exception but it is not the norm. It would be remiss of me not to defend myself and my colleagues in that regard. There are rogues in every sector of...