Results 161-180 of 2,000 for speaker:Paul Daly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: I apologise for not having been here from the outset, although I do not think I will get many critics on the other side of the table regarding where I was. I was raising a Commencement matter in the Seanad looking for a temporary extension to the hedge-cutting season due to the current saturation of land, so I do not think they will scold me for attending to that as opposed to being here. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: On a point of information, it is just a discussion with the Minister next week. We do not need to submit amendments by next Thursday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: The amendments will come afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: I welcome the witnesses. I want to tease out a few things in our guests' submissions a little bit further and to do a compare and contrast exercise with both BirdWatch Ireland and An Taisce, in particular, with regard to the birds and the shallow tillage. We will start with that one. I get what BirdWatch is saying. I am a farmer and when I was younger we were making some tillage and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: Does Mr. Moore wish to comment on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: Many birds will not get any benefit from a cover crop.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: We can park that one there. We could say it was well intended but there are consequences that were not foreseen or studied. I am constituency colleague of Deputy Flaherty, so it is not that I am ignoring Coastwatch but we do not have any coast in Westmeath either. Returning to An Taisce, could Dr. McGoff explain a little more on the science and study in respect of the comment that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: That is what I am saying. I will not say it sounds like An Taisce is nearly promoting it but when I read that, the first thing that came into my head was that the way to go is zero grazing. However, that is not what we want to promote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: Reading An Taisce’s submission - I am not being critical - I was trying to work out in my head the difference between urine patching and slurry and the first thing that came into my head was that the direction to go here is zero grazing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: Is there alternative science to the science Dr. McGoff is quoting? In any argument, there are two sides. You can read an article today and think it is convincing and tomorrow you could read an article on the other side of the argument and it can be equally as convincing. I am not a scientist but for the purpose of conversation, my layman’s theory on it would be that the cow...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: Does Dr. McGoff have access to any studies – I know it will probably be Teagasc again, and I presume we will have Teagasc in – on the amount of nitrates in our water that are coming through drainage from land or that are coming from animals still being allowed into water courses to drink and doing their business while they are in there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: If the Chair does not mind, I have one more question. In this whole debate, the study we are doing is to put a report together with regard to the derogation going forward. At what point of the discussion does food security come into play? We have the farmer side and we have the witnesses’ side. Leaving the fact that both sides have a serious and vested interest, Joe Public is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: We need to bring that element into the conversation. We seem to be having conversations that are polar.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: The purpose of this whole exercise from a farming perspective is food production and it never gets a mention in the conversation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: Is Ms Dubsky talking about drinking water?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: Does or could purification for drinking water remove the nitrates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: When the water gets to the point of being drinking water, it has gone through the purification system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: If we were talking about streams here, okay, but is drinking water not treated? Does the treatment process not address the nitrate content?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: I am talking about public drinking water.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: We are talking about public drinking water. Is it not part of the process for the purification of drinking water that nitrates are taken out or neutralised?