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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2023)

Paul Daly: I ask the Deputy Leader if we could get the Minister for Transport to come to the House sometime soon for a debate on the entire transport system in Ireland, particularly provincial and rural bus and train services. The main emphasis of the debate should be on the payment methods on our bus services. Frequency and regularity aside, in the year 2023 in what is practically a cashless society...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Paul Daly: I have a couple of brief questions and I apologise if they have been covered. There was a Vote in the Seanad so I missed part of this meeting and I hope that I will not repeat any questions. I am intrigued to learn about anaerobic digesters. How is there balanced supply by virtue of the fact that both grass and slurry are seasonal? Can anaerobic digestion use different products at the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Paul Daly: With regard to the carbon credit, the opening statement cited the famous 37.5% of emissions for which agriculture is accountable. I understand the answer that was given to the Chair regarding how the agricultural sector will get some credit. Before I say any more, I will state that I am pro anaerobic digestion. I just want to tease out a few issues. If all the credit goes to the transport...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Apr 2023)

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

Seanad: Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Sheep Sector: Statements (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I wish to be associated with welcoming the young members of Dáil na nÓg and the perhaps older members of the farm representative bodies in the sheep sector. I thank the Minister for attending this welcome debate. I was one of those who led the call for it. I hope that, on the back of it, we can see some developments in the sector, which has a long history. As the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I welcome Deputy Kerrane and wish Deputy Carthy the best in his new role. We have always had a very good working relationship here, politics aside, and I look forward to having a good working relationship with Deputy Kerrane also. A few questions I had have already been asked so I will not rehash them, but I would like to tease the matter out a bit. Mr. Moloney broke down the tonnage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I know, but we should have a target. We would tell an under-14 football team going out on the field to have a target of 100%. It is very defeatist to set out that 100% will not be achieved. We should at least aspire to achieve 100%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: When you set a target to be achieved, perfection is the target and it will never be achieved. Just because somebody else is doing less, to me, it does not wash.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: The independent collectors, to judge from all commentary, have gone off the pitch since the move from the green list to the amber list. Then the Chinese gates closed and the price dropped. As I said, the equivalent of 2 million bales of plastic that the IFFPG knows about is out there, and that is for only one year. It takes only ten years until that adds up to a fully year of plastic....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I accept all that. I do not share the enthusiasm of my colleague, Senator Boyhan, regarding an invitation to a bring centre because I have been. I can only compliment how the bring centres are run but I pay for the privilege of every visit I make to a bring centre so I do not share his enthusiasm for an invitation. I will move on. With the greatest respect to the representatives' answers,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Will it be advertised for people who may want to have an expression of interest when the scheme comes up for renewal in 2025?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Okay. That is it for the moment. I might come back in again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Normally I would say that Deputy Martin Browne has already said what I was going to say and I will not rehearse it, but I will rehearse it because it needs to be said again. The question is as much for the Chair as it is for the Department and the IFFPG. Where do we go from here? As a member of this committee, I am not comfortable. I probably will be told that this committee's duty is to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I am talking about the 12%, and I said it from the start. Everybody is talking about the 70% to 88%. I am talking about the 12% to 30% that there is no obligation to do but yet for which IFFPG is paid. As Deputy Browne said, I do not know of any other instance in the world where somebody gets paid upfront 100%, to use his analogy, to build a house or whatever, and everybody seems to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: It is if you are getting paid for 100%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: As Deputy Fitzmaurice said, if a holding company or the Department was collecting the money from the producers, I would accept 88% as being a brilliant figure and then, at the end of the year, the Department would release 88% of the money to IFFPG. When IFFPG is getting 100%, 88% is a great figure from IFFPG's point of view but to me it is not. There is 12% gone missing that IFFPG is paid for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I am not arguing that.