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Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: I do not know how good a timekeeper Shackleton was because clearly it is not a Kildare trait.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: The Taoiseach will not be surprised if I raise the issue of agriculture with him. He knows its importance and I compliment him. There are a number of issues coming down the track to us in agriculture, such as the CAP negotiations, the Mercosur deal, etc. in which the Taoiseach and the Minister will play a big role, in the back end of next year during our Presidency. There is, however,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó – Order of Business (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: On my way here this morning, I heard an interview on "Morning Ireland" with a lady called Ann Woodlock, who is an 86-year-old who won a gold medal for Ireland in the European Masters Athletics Championships in Madeira at the weekend. It was a breath of fresh air and I take this opportunity to congratulate her. It was such a refreshing interview. It got me thinking about the fact that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: I have a couple of broad-ranging questions. I am a Whip in the Seanad and there a possibility of another vote so if I have asked the questions and I have to leave I will see the answers. Last night, I got a message in a WhatsApp group and it was one of those messages that says something will be organised if enough people are interested. Regarding apprenticeships, if some people are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: In a scenario like that, where is the instructor found? If it is a new sphere, who is the expert?

Seanad: Support for Ukraine: Motion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: I second the motion. I thank our leader, Senator O'Loughlin, and everybody involved in putting the motion together. On 26 February 2022, my father died, four days after the outbreak of the current part of this war because that was not the start of this war, as we have to acknowledge. It has been a lifetime for me since that personal loss on 26 February 2022. I can only imagine what it has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: I welcome the witnesses. I also welcome my former colleague, Paul Gavan. It is nice to see him back in the Houses again, on the other side of the fence, so to speak. It has been a very engaging discussion so far this morning. Many problems or issues are being highlighted from both the perspective of the student and the college life. We will be doing a report on apprenticeships at the end...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: If those changes were made, it would be more appetising for people to do apprenticeships. The biggest problem with apprenticeships is that there is, for want of a better word, a bit of a stigma. We need to overcome the mammy approach. The mammies of Ireland have a stigma about apprenticeships.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: The mammies and daddies of Ireland. In my era, it would have been the mammies. The attitude was that Johnny has to do a degree and the parents dared not mention an apprenticeship. How do we overcome that? Slowly but surely, that is being diluted and we are growing out of it, but an element of it remains. We created that. We pushed it and tried to get everybody into third level...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: I like the way Mr. Nolan put actors and politicians together.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: I want to raise awareness among the greater public of the issue of avian flu. There has been a confirmed case in a commercial flock in Northern Ireland. Imagine going to bed last night as someone who rears turkeys commercially and has just one major pay day in the year. You would be living on tenterhooks. It is important that we raise awareness among the public. Someone who has a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: I thank the witnesses for attending today. I was late arriving as I had something else on and I hope that I will not go over old ground. I thank Deputy Danny Healy-Rae for initiating this meeting and, from what I have heard, I will approach him with my own request for the budget next year. I have a couple of questions on the models. It has been said there is an INTERREG European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: Did that include funding from Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: Is that funding gone?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: In terms of the overall picture, irrespective of whether it is a voluntary model or a paid model, who co-ordinates this on the ground? Who accepts a farm? All the witnesses are saying they want more farmers but not every farmer, with the greatest will in the world, is ideal. Ninety-nine out of 100 farmers could be ideal for this scheme but the 100th will view the scheme as providing cheap...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: Who vets farmers? Who makes that call? Let us say a farmer is deemed acceptable and the scheme seems ideal, the scheme might not progress because a farm or farmyard is not safe enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: Who decides that a farmer or his farmyard is acceptable? Who matches the client with the farmer? I ask because clients have different needs and, therefore, people need to be matched. Who co-ordinates all of that at a micro level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: Let us say I am involved and some person is due to inspect my farm in the morning but a contractor rings or the weather changes and I have a busy workload, and tomorrow is not going to be suitable for me to have anybody around my farm, who would co-ordinate a change of plan at the eleventh hour?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: I am going to yield somewhat and tell the witnesses to carry on answering Deputy Fitzmaurice's questions, and then maybe round up at the end as to what the one big ask would be if they were in our shoes when we meet the Department on this issue. I was going to ask the same questions, so they can finish answering his questions in my time and then maybe wrap up with-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Paul Daly: -----what we can achieve.