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Seanad: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: I wish to be associated with the Minister's comments. I thank him personally. This Bill has been mooted since the European regulation came in more than two years ago. There have been many discussions on it. As the Minister said, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine had many meetings concerned with this issue, even prior to the pre-legislative scrutiny...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: I know my partner, Bernie, was at a meeting that Mr. Rushe was probably at because I have been hearing about the onion issue every weekend.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: Every weekend I go home and it is like a "Where in the World?" quiz. Peru was mentioned and I do not know where else was mentioned. If she is watching now, she will know I do not be listening to her but she can get reassurance from the fact that at least Mr. Rushe listened to her last night. I want to ask about the price and how it can be more competitive coming from Peru because Peru was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: That is the question I am asking. That advice was available that time and I am talking about 40 years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: Is there a potential solution to overcome that problem and have a similar Irish-based model if we could pull together all the heads Mr. McCormack mentioned earlier? I am trying to tease out a potential solution and I am not providing guarantees or saying it is going to happen but we have to be solution-driven.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: I know this is probably small scale in the big picture but I imagine there would be even fewer horticultural growers, and especially field crop growers, if it was not for farmer's markets selling the Irish product. Is that something we are not getting the maximum out of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: Should it or could it be a bigger percentage? Is there any way it can be incentivised if we are looking for solutions? It is down to the initiative of individuals. We have a chap at home who comes into the square in the village every Saturday morning and he goes home with an empty van. There is not another one for seven or eight miles. Is it something we need to try to formulate or come...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: I appreciate that and I know of one instance of a pumpkin grower for the Halloween market and he just could not compete with the Dutch on price. I can never fathom how stuff can travel, with the cost of travel, and still be cheaper than we produce it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: Is there any extra demand from the customer for organic or is there much potential there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: The volume would not be there to make it feasible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: That is where I was going next. Is there a marketing issue here? A brother of mine grows a few tomatoes as a hobby. He sends up some bull tomatoes every year. That is a tomato. What you are buying in the shop is not a tomato. If that was marketed correctly or if people tasted the difference once you would imagine there would be a market there. There has to be potential for creating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: I was thinking about this when the witnesses were talking about the peat replacement that is coming across the world. It is. Is there any danger, because it is a coconut byproduct or a crop-based byproduct, of some foreign disease of any sort coming in or sneaking in the back door? Is that an issue because of the fact that it is a grown product as opposed to a manufactured or harvested...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: When it is finished or has served its purpose, is there a future for the byproduct? Is it able to be used or disposed of the way we would have used peat as a fertiliser or whatever? Will that be an issue down the line with regard to how the used commodity is disposed of? Has it a purpose or use?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: I second that proposal.

Seanad: Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: We will now deal with No. 5, motion regarding the continuance of the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and No. 6, motion regarding the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009. Both motions will be debated together and decided separately. I call on the Acting Leader to move No. 5 regarding the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998.

Seanad: Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: I call Senator Horkan, who has seven minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: I point out to the Deputy that that is outside today's agenda. If the witnesses are prepared to answer we have no issues. We have all received that correspondence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: What is the difference between a white passport and a green one? What percentage of white passports have been issued because whether a passport is white or green makes a big difference to the value of the animal? I think Mr. Duggan told Deputy Kerrane earlier 20,000 passports were issued last year. What percentage of them were white and why? I apologise for intruding but I think that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Paul Daly: I have a few questions. Can you get from a white to a green passport through DNA? I have spoken to a lot of people who were disappointed to get white passports when they reckoned they had proof of the dam and the sire. In their opinion, it should be green but it is white. Can you progress from white to green through DNA or is there a process or procedure? Is there a dispute resolution...