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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2017)

Paul Daly: I raise the matter of farm safety which, coincidentally, my colleague, Senator Gallagher, raised already. This is indicative of the severity of the matter as we did not communicate before we raised it. Unfortunately, in Clare yesterday evening there was another farm fatality and I take this opportunity to extend our sympathies to the bereaved. This farm accident brought to 14 the number of...

Seanad: Report of Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Daly: I also welcome the Minister of State and congratulate her on her appointment. I also join in congratulating and complimenting the special committee Chairman, Senator Neale Richmond, and all of the committee members. As the Chairman mentioned at the outset, we sat through more than 50 hours of meetings. More than 99% of the dialogue was of a pessimistic and negative nature, which may have...

Seanad: Report of Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Daly: The time for talking has come to an end. What action is being taken by Government on the issues flagged by the witnesses to the committee as priorities, including State aid rules and Northern Ireland special status? What negotiation is taking place in that regard? As mentioned previously, Ireland has a tripartite agreement with France and the United Kingdom in relation to the horse racing...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second and Subsequent Stages (13 Jul 2017)

Paul Daly: I welcome the Minister and congratulate him on his new appointment. As a rural man like the Minister, I am aware of the need for immediate action in rural Ireland. It is, to coin a phrase, dying on its feet and has been for some time. Fianna Fáil supports the main principles of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017, which establishes the new Department of Rural and...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second and Subsequent Stages (13 Jul 2017)

Paul Daly: With the permission of the Chair, I want to put the record straight regarding three references in Senator Ó Clochartaigh's contribution. I do not like to interject when someone is speaking. Senator Ó Clochartaigh referred three times to the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael partnership Government. Fianna Fáil is facilitating a minority Government through a confidence and supply...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second and Subsequent Stages (13 Jul 2017)

Paul Daly: If only Sinn Féin would do the same on both ends of the island, it might be a help to the country going forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of Tillage Sector: Discussion (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Daly: A number of the issues I wanted to discuss have already been mentioned and I look forward to the answers. I am from the midlands where we do not have big holdings in any sector. When I was a young lad, and up to 20 years ago, nearly every farm was a mixed farm. Farmers will get no cheaper feed, whether on their own dining tables or for feeding the stock, than growing their own. It was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector and the Nitrates Action Plan: Discussion (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Daly: I welcome the deputation and thank it for its report. Will Mr. Joe Healy elaborate a little more on the action plan? I know none of us can control the weather. Farmers in the north midlands and the west have got a hammering in the past two years and this year is no better. Earlier, I told of a case of a neighbour of mine who drove a combine into a 14-acre field three weeks ago and only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector and the Nitrates Action Plan: Discussion (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Daly: There is not much more I can say. It is clear that we are all on the one side on this issue. It is not a case of us and them. However, there is an element of us and them. Far be it from me to lecture the IFA on public relations; one could learn much more from the IFA in that regard. If a drowsy fish is found in a river in the morning, farmers are blamed. As the Chairman said, that is...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Daly: I raise again a matter I mentioned just prior to the recess. It is the very pressing matter of farm safety and farm-related deaths. Unfortunately, last week there were two more fatalities, bringing the total to 17 for the year gone by. As somebody who is very involved in the national ploughing championships, it is telling that on the first day of that event, one of the deaths was of Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Daly: I welcome the delegation from Teagasc. I agree with the policy on food but does it have a GM policy in the area of energy crops? There is a difference in the end user in this case. Grain growers and farmers' organisations were before the committee last week. I am from the midlands and some of my neighbours, as well as people in the west and north west, have been badly affected. While not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Daly: I welcome both groups to the committee. This is the committee's second week hearing submissions on the future of the tillage sector, and the importance of grain has been a prominent feature. The two presentations today have highlighted the massive success story of the end user and the plight of the producer. I ask the ABFI where between the two extremes is the cookie crumbling? It wants...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

Paul Daly: I raise this morning the need for the Leader, with his colleagues in Government, to take immediate action on the entire banking system of the country. I welcome a number of initiatives in yesterday's budget, including the housing strategic investment fund towards which the Government is putting €750 million and the announcement of the new Brexit loan scheme on the back of last year's...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

Paul Daly: It is not enough.

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (11 Oct 2017)

Paul Daly: It is a great pleasure for me to second motion on Second Stage of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017. I join Senator Catherine Ardagh in complimenting Deputy James Browne on the Trojan work he has done to date to get the Bill to this point. While it gives me great pleasure to support the proposal, it aggrieves me that many of the contents of the Bill are only being introduced in 2017....

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (11 Oct 2017)

Paul Daly: This Bill is above politics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Paul Daly: Thank you, Chairman. I would like to revisit the pricing issue, which was mentioned by a number of members. With the greatest of respect to Mr. Nallen, to cut to the chase, it is not the model of the pricing, or how it is construed or come up with that is the issue. When one talks to the farmers, and we have had representatives before the committee, the bottom line is that the witness is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Paul Daly: The witness said Minch Malt liaises with Teagasc and that he has the production figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Paul Daly: What is the average profit, on the price that Minch Malt is paying per tonne, for the farmer based on the Teagasc figures? I refer to payment on the actual product, without subsidisation and the CAP payment. Based on the Teagasc input figures and the price Minch Malt is paying, how much profit can a farmer hope to get on production of one tonne, or per acre based on average yield?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Paul Daly: The witness is being questioned by a farmer.