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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Paul Daly: ...as we are on the one page this evening. Usually I come out combative. I accept the Department's report and I welcome the fact that it highlights and sees the issues that could pertain to Ireland as an island nation. Maintaining our access to the Common Market and being on a level playing field is important. I have a couple of questions. I will not backtrack on what I said about us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Daly: ...many hearings and meetings here. I would like to hear from Ms Jupp how she thinks Coillte can help us to reach the target, which is 8,000 ha. I know Coillte has approximately 7% of the national land bank, so it is probably restricted in that it can only sow what it owns. How can Coillte play a role in the overall forestry sector to try to get things back on track and help us to achieve...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hedge Cutting (22 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: ...hedgerow from 1 March to 31 August, which is welcome from an environmental and a biodiversity perspective. Unfortunately, this year, due to the very inclement weather we have had in recent months, land is completely saturated, and it is nigh on impossible for machinery to travel on fields without doing untold damage. A lot of farmers, by virtue of the fact that their hedgerow maintenance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: ...the other side of the table regarding where I was. I was raising a Commencement matter in the Seanad looking for a temporary extension to the hedge-cutting season due to the current saturation of land, so I do not think they will scold me for attending to that as opposed to being here. I tuned in to the meeting online before I had to go into the Chamber and heard the start of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: ...as a farmer that the way to go is what we see many people doing now, namely, zero grazing. We put the cattle in and we spread the slurry as opposed to having them urinating and whatever on the land. That is probably the most intensive type of farming we have. I am not a scientist or biologist but what is the difference in urine patches and slurry when basically the majority of slurry is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Daly: ...have access to any studies – I know it will probably be Teagasc again, and I presume we will have Teagasc in – on the amount of nitrates in our water that are coming through drainage from land or that are coming from animals still being allowed into water courses to drink and doing their business while they are in there?

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: ...make has been made by two previous speakers. It is something I have worked on and have had a lot of communication on with the Minister, Deputy McGrath. It is the area of the residential zoned land tax. While I welcome the commitment in the budget to suspend this tax for a year to the beginning of 2025 to allow for remapping and, presumably, further opportunity for people for whom it is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Invasive Species Policy (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Daly: ...behalf of the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Noonan. As everybody may be aware, the mink, a member of the weasel family, is not natural to Ireland but was imported in the 1950s as part of a commercial fur production operation. Due to many escapees, and in instances where the commercial entity may not have been as successful as people...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Industry (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Daly: ...that where a farmer needs a decision, the process needs to be expedited. It needs to happen now. Another consequence of the weather we have had is its effect on the condition of grazing land. Farmers now have to put in their cattle. Depending on their location, they may have had grass for another fortnight, three weeks or one month, but that is all finished now because those grazing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Daly: ...fruit and vegetable growers in the country. My final question is for both the Department and Teagasc. While the plan is to see a 30% increase in production, how do they see that happening? Land availability was mentioned as being an issue. We have mentioned labour and the margins. If there is not a margin there for people, nobody is going to do it or we are certainly not going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Paul Daly: ...The Minister touched on the bark beetle but what contingency plans are in place? The word on the street is that while it might not be documented or acknowledged yet, it is either already in Scotland or it is only a matter of time before it will be. Given what we have learned from ash dieback, the last thing we want is another disease coming in. What contingency plans are there? On...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Paul Daly: ..., with the storm, or lesser, because they are rotting due to ash dieback. They are a danger to public transport and people using the roads. It is an enormous expense and cost for the farmers or land owners who own the hedges with those trees in them. A scheme will have to be put in place to help those farmers and roadside land owners to remove those trees or we will all be up in arms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)

Paul Daly: ...the 220 kg nitrogen per hectare and, second, we try to mitigate as much as possible so the minimum effect possible comes to compound the situation for the other farmers down along the line, possibly through a rise in land prices. How will a suckler or tillage farmer, for example, compete with that? Some of our creameries and processors may not have the milk quantity they require going...

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

Paul Daly: .... Mr. Caslin stated the figure that will be credited to the agriculture sector is calculated through the reduction of chemical fertilisers and also livestock and cattle displacement because of land use change. I am playing devil's advocate here. Where in this debate do we meet the line of food security if we have the target of 5.7 TWh and our forestry targets? As the Chairman...

Seanad: Sheep Sector: Statements (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: ...in the sector, which has a long history. As the Minister rightly stated, it is the second largest sector in Irish agriculture. While people might argue for bacon and cabbage, Irish lamb stew is Ireland's traditional meal. This in itself shows how far back our relationship with sheep goes, not only as a farming community, but as a nation. As the Minister highlighted, this sector is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Paul Daly: ..., for want of a better phrase, in Mr. O’Toole’s statement is sustainable food production - call it sustainable food production or call it eco- or environmentally-friendly. On the back of our climate action plan, land use and land-use change, a lot of the policy that is proposed or being implemented would be in land use and land-use change, where we have forestry targets. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Paul Daly: ...will be relieved to hear I will probably not pursue that line either. I will go back to Deputy Fitzmaurice's line of questioning and get a little more clarification on the matter of peatland and peat soil in the context of the European Commission's nature restoration proposals. The witnesses said Coillte has 120,000 ha, 30,000 ha of which may not be replantable. How much land has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Paul Daly: I am sorry to interrupt. Even if the European Commission had not come out with its nature restoration proposals, Coillte has replanting obligations. That land would automatically have been replanted but there is now a possibility it will not be. There has to be a loss in there somewhere. How will Coillte balance that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Paul Daly: Does Coillte have much virgin land on its books that may fall into the same category? This is land that may have been targeted for planting but that now may not be possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Paul Daly: The thrust of Coillte’s submission and of almost every answer its representatives have given has been about the availability and acquiring of land. Why, then, does it sell land?