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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2025)

Paul Daly: I will ask the Leader to initiate a debate. As seems to often be the case with me, I do not know which Minister I am looking for. This is an agricultural issue but it may fall under the remit of the Minister for the environment. An article in last week's edition of the Irish Farmers' Journal, ran under the headline, "Farm emissions estimates cut by 7%." This is massive news in the context...

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister of State and wish to be associated with all the congratulations he has received since he came in here. Like Senator Davitt, I soldiered with him in the chamber of Westmeath County Council so he will forgive me if by lapse of memory I call him a councillor or Boxer, but I know he will answer to both. Since I came in, I also have found out that a happy birthday is in...

Seanad: International Trade and International Relations: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2025)

Paul Daly: I am sharing time with Senator Dee Ryan. It would be remiss of me not to be associated with the remarks of Senator Andrews and to acknowledge the passing of the legend that was Mick O'Dwyer. From a Westmeath point of view, we will always remember the early 2000s and 2004 in particular, when we won our one and only Leinster Senior Football Championship, with the great Páidí...

Seanad Select Committee on Subsidiarity (European Union Legislative Scrutiny): Election of Cathaoirleach (3 Apr 2025)

Paul Daly: I propose Senator Pat Casey.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2025)

Paul Daly: I wish to speak on a matter about which I am becoming more worried by the day. In the past couple of days, a fifth case of foot and mouth disease was confirmed in Slovakia. In fact, the Slovakian Government has now declared an official state of emergency in the country. This originated with one case in Germany on 6 January, followed by identified cases in Hungary and now Slovakia. In...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Daly: I am also going to ask that Ministers come to the House. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing shenanigans in the Lower House, the committees are not up and running. We are not a functioning Oireachtas. I would normally bring the issue I wish to raise to the agriculture committee or the finance committee, or I would get a party colleague to do so on my behalf. I refer to the ongoing...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Daly: Through the Fianna Fáil representatives in the area?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Weather Events (25 Feb 2025)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister and congratulate him on his appointment. I have not been speaking to him in a public forum since his appointment. I am delighted for him and to see him. Regarding this Commencement matter, I compliment him on how quick he was out of the traps in his response to the major crisis that was created by Storm Éowyn. I am always conscious when saying the name of that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Weather Events (25 Feb 2025)

Paul Daly: I thank the Minister for what is a very positive response. I would not have expected anything less. I compliment him on the line that covers it all for me, where he said he has asked his officials to review existing schemes. I have never doubted the fantastic schemes that are there for local community groups, community halls and for GAA centres and so on through the sports capital grants....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Paul Daly: The Senator said he did not have any questions but the witnesses may like to comment on his comments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Paul Daly: I also want to be associated with the remarks regarding our outgoing Chair, Deputy Jackie Cahill. It is no secret that Jackie, along with being a colleague, is a very good friend of mine. While we might knock sparks off each other as quickly as anybody else on an issue, we have had a very good working relationship. It was always a pleasure to be here at his request to step into the Chair...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Paul Daly: Maybe I spoke for too long because I feel passionately about it. The comparison between the two cases in that the one common denominator, in my opinion, is the damaging of the good reputation of racing. Both cases are similar in that regard. That is the common denominator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Paul Daly: Who is suffering for damaging the reputation of racing in what happened here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Paul Daly: I welcomed the report and everything Mr. O'Loughlin has just outlined going forward. I do not accept, however, that we should not be looking back and only be looking forward. Some €141,000 of State, taxpayer and public money was paid, which was not sanctioned by HRI. It was accounted for, “as being part of the Voluntary Redundancy and Early Retirement Scheme payments”....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Paul Daly: They are funded by HRI which, as has been stated, receives massive sums of money from the public purse ever year. While it may receive a certain amount of money from the State and a certain amount of money from elsewhere through entry fees or whatever, putting the two parts together, there is no way of knowing what part was used. When a body is in receipt of public funding and money is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Paul Daly: That was the package, just for clarification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Paul Daly: That was the correct package.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Paul Daly: The €141,000 was paid over and above that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Paul Daly: But where was the €141,000 in the package, in the severance, in the terms and conditions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Paul Daly: Why then would it be here, in what I read out at the start? Why would it have to be camouflaged in accounts as being recorded as being part of a voluntary redundancy and early retirement scheme? It was not a voluntary redundancy; it was an early retirement scheme. Why was there a need for that false accounting, for want of a better term?