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Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Paul Daly: ...incorporation scheme, but I have people on to me about the irony of us incorporating or chopping up our own straw in the harvest time and now importing straw from the UK. The comparison has been made with when we stopped harvesting peat for environmental reasons but found ourselves, on the other hand, importing it from eastern Europe. With regard to the climate and environment, which is...

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

Paul Daly: The submission referred to the growing medium issue and how the changes in respect of peat are affecting the sector. I ask Mr. McCormack to comment on gene editing going forward. I am not asking about genetically modified organisms, GMOs but, rather, CRISPR gene editing, which would be a big help in eliminating pesticides and herbicides. Has the IFA gone down that route or done research on...

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

Paul Daly: I also asked about the growing medium and the peat situation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Paul Daly: ...fruit and vegetable production is labour intensive and seasonal. Labour will always come up as an issue. In some sectors at the moment the big issue is the growing medium, and the transition from peat to whatever is supposed to be the next peat. There was no just transition there and they were left in the muck. The fact is, that like most producers in the agriculture sector, they are...

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: 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: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Daly: ...to be carried out. Does Mr. Boland know if anybody is taking on the mantle in that regard? Is anyone even looking into it because it is a startling figure in his presentation that there is enough peat in that pile to do what the mushroom industry would be using for 22 years? It is a lot shorter draw to the four corners of Ireland from Derryarkin and Rochfortbridge than it is from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Daly: I will be very brief, because most of what I was going to say was said while I was Acting Chair. Our agenda is the impact of peat shortages on the horticultural industry. For the purpose of conversation, let us forget about extraction for a minute. Senator Hackett is the Minister of State with responsibility for horticulture, and today's brief is about the impact of peat shortages on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: ...tractor would sink. How will the proposal work in such circumstances? My first question is on the percentage. Is the percentage – be it 20%, 30% or 70%, given the year – a percentage of the peatland drained for a commercial purpose, be it peat extraction or agriculture, or of our overall landmass?

Seanad: Impact on Farming Sector Arising from the Situation in Ukraine: Statements (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Daly: ...of the next CAP. I do not know whether it would be possible to look at that. He mentioned horticulture, fruit and vegetables. We have had the debates, and I will not go over them again, about the importation of peat from the Baltic states. That is also an issue. Our horticulture sector, which has been depending on imported peat to meet its needs, will not have access to the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Daly: ...here at home, I have seen numerous studies Teagasc has been involved in, along with beef factories and individual farmers, with regard to the mat, where a comparison of the animal on concrete, on peat, on straw, on rubber and on concrete without rubber was done. Has EASYFIX had any dealings with Teagasc regarding the slurry aeration system? Has it had any previous contacts with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Daly: ...for planning permission, Bord na Móna made the decision not to seek planning permission, accepted the ruling, waved the white flag immediately and in a very short space of time decided to suspend peat production completely. Who made that decision in Bord na Móna? Why was no regard given to a just transition or, indeed, any transition for the horticultural growers, the farmers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Daly: That is the case until Bord na Móna comes to the end of its peat resources. I am talking about additional peat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Daly: ...purpose for which it was processed. Would it be a viable proposition? Is a lot of acreage needed or could a farmer get a return from a small acreage? Will the witnesses elaborate on the drain peat soil, whether it is the ideal soil for hemp or if it can be grown in uplands or other soils? In regard to hemp being a rotational crop, does it have to be rotated or could it be grown in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticultural Industry: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Daly: ...they are from, are a rehash of working group and interim reports. All the time, there is an industry on its knees and there is the contradiction of the carbon leakage that is the importation of peat when we have peat here. Irrespective of your political allegiance or feelings on the environment, we are all well intentioned in that regard and we all have the same agenda, including the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticultural Industry: Discussion (20 Jul 2021)

Paul Daly: ...It walked away from them practically overnight. I presume many of these bogs will need manicuring before they are in an ideal position for rewetting. That manicuring may or may not require the removal of peat. Has anyone sat down with Bord na Móna and asked it to do an analysis of the bogs before wetting them to see if there is a surplus layer of peat that will need removal? Could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticultural Industry: Discussion (20 Jul 2021)

Paul Daly: ...Móna to suspend operations and to engage with the system in respect of specific targeted bogs, which may even need some manicuring before wetting, with a view to extracting a targeted tonnage of peat for the horticulture sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticultural Industry: Discussion (20 Jul 2021)

Paul Daly: ...Specific, targeted bogs for commercial purposes, in the interests of saving another sector, would be something that could be considered. It could engage with the system for production of horticultural peat in designated bogs in the interim until we have alternatives. Does Mr. Nugent not think that is something the Department could have discussed, addressed or explored as part of its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Daly: I welcome our guests. Like Senator Boyhan, I condole with them on their plight. I see the pure ridiculousness and stupidity of it. I know hauliers who are hauling peat from Drogheda down to the south of the country. We have this climate change and climate action debate in these Houses on a regular basis. The one key message is the bringing of people with us and having buy-in from the...