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Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: Deputy Grealish is joined in the Public Gallery by members of Oranmore Men's Shed. They are very welcome. We are delighted to have the Minister for Finance, Deputy McGrath, with us today.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: I thank the Minister. Group spokespersons will have ten minutes.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: I welcome our visitors to the Public Gallery; they are guests of Deputies Jim O'Callaghan and Mattie McGrath.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: I thank the Senator. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, to the House to replace the Minister, Deputy McGrath. That concludes the round of lead spokespeople. Our next contributor is Senator Lombard. He has five minutes.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: I will be brief. Having the benefit of sitting in the Chair for the last hour I will not rehash some of the things that have been said. Having said that, I will contradict myself and say that the one point I will make has been made by two previous speakers. It is something I have worked on and have had a lot of communication on with the Minister, Deputy McGrath. It is the area of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (22 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: I am in the 30%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (22 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister and his officials. As required, I put on record that I have a racehorse in training, which I bred myself, so I am an owner and a breeder. I am a director and former chairman of Kilbeggan Race Company Limited. It will be no shock to anybody that I welcome the fund. There is a lot of debate about this fund annually. It has to come before us annually and that...

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: : I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Thomas Byrne who will have ten minutes.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: Before we move on, I wish to welcome Dermot and Anne Marie McKenna from the village of Fore in my own home county of Westmeath. They are guests of Senator Gavan.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: The Senator only mentioned Cavan twice, and Cootehill once. I hope the Minister of State looks as favourably on his neighbours to the west, as the Senator has suggested for his neighbours in the North.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: The Minister of State will get to answer again.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: Let the Senator speak. The Minister of State will get his chance to respond at the end.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: That concludes the round of lead speakers. We will now move to five-minute slots and, at this stage, we have more speakers than five minutes, so I ask them to be as brief as possible.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: The Minister of State has to come back in at 5.05 p.m. For everyone who wants to speak to get to speak by then, we are looking at three or four minutes each. I ask Members to curtail their contributions to three minutes.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: Senators Dooley and Chambers are sharing and I am allocating them five minutes between the two Senators.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: The Minister of State without interruption, please.

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: The Minister of State has 13 seconds. If he wants to have a conversation, he can fire ahead.

Seanad: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Nov 2023)

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

Seanad: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: I welcome the witnesses. For the record, I will declare I have no vested interest. I have horses but they are racehorses and so fall under Horse Racing Ireland's remit. To many viewers-----