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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: That was based on the terms of the Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: The EPA sent the recommendations based on agriculture only.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Only.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: In that case, if my neighbour is going up the road and a bag of nitrogen bursts accidentally and a downpour washes it into the river, Dr. Cotter is basically saying that had to come from something I did in the field and not something that happened on the road.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: The EPA is specifically concentrating on agriculture in everything it has done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I would like clarification on something that was mentioned a while ago about the rise in levels after the drought of 2018. The witnesses stated it was because farmers used extra chemical nitrogen because that was the advice that was given. Do they have scientific proof of this? Is it just because they know extra nitrogen was used and they are correlating the two? The habits of many people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: "Yes" or "No".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Do you have scientific proof?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Is there scientific proof? Is it a correlation because people know it happened? If something happens that people know happened and then something else happens somewhere else, it is very easy to blame one on the other. I am not saying there is not a correlation but is there scientific proof it was the cause? Many other things changed as well in the dry period. The levels of water dropped,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: It is a correlation. There is no scientific proof. It is correlation. The EPA is adding up the figures of what was spread. Are the witnesses saying, therefore, that in next year's report, because chemical nitrogen use dropped so much last year due to the price because of the war in Ukraine and because of schemes, they can nearly tell us here and now that the nitrogen level will be down...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: No, we are talking to the EPA today. We will talk to Teagasc on other occasions. The EPA are the people sending the report to the Commission. It is the EPA we are questioning today. We will have Teagasc in, no doubt, and we will make comparisons. We are talking to the EPA today and I want an answer to my question. Do the witnesses have scientific proof that what they have said is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Based on that logic, next year the nitrogen level in the water will be down. We can all go home knowing the nitrogen levels in the water next year will go down based on how the EPA operates on that logic because we all know that chemical fertiliser was not used last year. Has the investment in Uisce Éireann over the past ten years shown an improvement in the water quality of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: It was controlling me there. I was making it worse instead of better. I must figure out how to turn it off. I will follow on from what the Cathaoirleach has said. I did not realise I was up first, but I have decided that I have only one question. I would like to give the representatives the opportunity to respond to what they have heard here this morning. I welcome the president of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Science is a funny science. It can be interpreted a lot of different ways. I believe it is more of a statement. The big issue I would take from today, and the most worrying thing I would take away, would be the whole question of the lag time. Dr. O'Connell has nailed it there. They are saying we can see a change in a year, but actually we cannot. It takes longer. We have had the REAP...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I do not have that many questions because the opening statements are coming from the same perspective. I respect both of them. In any business, no matter what one is manufacturing or whatever, one's end customer determines one's product. I understand that to sell the quantities that we need to sell, we need to sell the proper qualities. The reason this is on the agenda and where it came...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I apologise for interrupting Mr. Crammond. I accept what is in the presentation about the size of the correct lamb for sale in retail but surely there is a hospitality market where it is not being sold on esthetics. That larger leg can go into a hotel which is putting up a leg of lamb in the carvery. It does not have to be advertised. Why would MII cut the price? There are different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: I apologise for interrupting Mr. O'Toole. Why is it discounted? Is it discounted as part negotiating the deal in the contract because they are large-scale purchasers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Can Mr. O'Toole see where I am coming from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Why is it discounted because it is a larger animal if it is still serving the same purpose? It is still as good a quality meat, if it is cooked properly. The whole argument, which I accept, is based on the whole aesthetic side and the size of portion for going into the shopping trolley and the family oven. There is no way one can differentiate between the quality of the lamb if the lamb is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Daly: Sorry, Mr. Carroll.