Results 1-20 of 127 for speaker:Paraic Brady

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I raise an issue of daylight robbery, simply, and I will use that phrase. We have seen the meat processors again this week reducing the price of lamb by another 20 cent per kilogramme. Everybody knows what happened in the beef sector over the past number of years, where the same processors have brought the decline of cattle into a state where now we see almost 3,700 fewer cattle killed this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I want to get back in. Regarding the 26,000 ha of fallen trees on the ground, if we got a scheme or compensation package to go back and plant that, we would meet our targets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Regarding farmers competing with forestry companies for land, will the Minister of State comment on that? Food production is a must. If marginal land comes up for sale in north Longford or Leitrim, as Deputy Kenny said, it has a value to companies for meeting their emissions but they are competing with a farmer who is producing food. I would like the Minister of State's comment on that, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: That is a different problem now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Should the State compete with a farmer who has productive land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Will there be a scheme for small-scale planting for farmers? If I want to plant, say, four or five acres will that scheme be there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I congratulate the Minister of State on the start he has made. With the recent storm, we have seen one of the greatest disasters that has ever hit the State. It has left two and a half years of timber on the ground. The Minister of State has got off to a very good start in dealing with people and meeting them on the ground, face to face. Regarding the planting of new forests, I put a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farm Safety: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I am a farmer and attended a scene where a young lad lost his life in my area. I was the second person to be there. It could have been avoided, the same as everything else, all these other accidents. There were two in our local area. It is true what they say. It not only has a devastating effect on people's lives but also on communities. To this day, that farm is never going to be the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farm Safety: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I would like FBD to comment on that, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farmer Mental Health and Well-being: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I concur with what all my colleagues have said. Stress seems to me to be number one, as a farmer myself. People have mentioned late payments. It is the anguish of the whole thing and the pressures that banks and co-ops have put on. A farmer will pay his bills when he gets his money, no problem at all. The problem is when he does not have that money to pay the bills yet he has to buy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farmer Mental Health and Well-being: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I agree with Senator Boyhan about the ribbon. If farmers have a tractor run, they get a little sticker to put in the cab.. If every farmer could get even that sticker to put up on their tractor, the same as tax and insurance discs, that sticker symbolises what Senator Boyhan highlighted. It is about visibility when a person gets up on the tractor. There should be a helpline number on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Will the environmental aspect come as a single budget or will it be tied in? Are there two pillars?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Come 2028, will it need to be regulated, going forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: It will run until 2035.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I also missed the start of the meeting. We have all looked for simplification. Whether you are farming 10 ha or 70 ha, it should apply across the board. Unfortunately, it seems to be set up for the lesser farmer. Is that correct?

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I thank Mr. Moran for his presentation. It is clear that a small number of people fell between a rock and a hard place, which is very unfortunate. The wording in the legislation is important. Perhaps that wording can be changed to sort this out. Mr. Moran is correct in that it only affects a very small number of people. If we were to take anything out of today, it is that we are here to...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: The good news for the residents is that the person with responsibility for the OPW is the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran. In fairness to the Minister of State, he has been very hands on in the past with flood relief, certainly in his area and in others. We all saw what happened in Texas and the devastation that flooding brings in respect of lives and homes. There are certain...

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

Paraic Brady: I hope that chess will be recognised as a sport rather than a game. Chess is a competitive sport where two players are deeply enthralled in a mind game that takes a serious amount of concentration for a number of hours. It is a global game. It has Olympic recognition and chess has been recognised as a sport by the International Olympic Committee since 2002. It was an event at the Asian...

Seanad: Sea Fisheries: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Even just five minutes would be enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I thank all the associations here. Last weekend, I made a request for them to attend, especially the NARGC. To make it known, I am a member of the NARGC and keep hunting dogs at home. Everybody is responsible for their own dog, just to make that clear. Every dog is a pet until the pets get together and then become killing machines. Unfortunately, I keep sheep as well. I have some...