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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Stats on approvals and figures can balance any book, but I am talking about a specific milk tank. Balance that one. What has changed with the item? Forget about the figures, stats, the income, and the outgoings. What has changed with a milk tank going into an existing shed since 2021 and 2022 to 2023 and 2024?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I have one more question, which has a one-line answer. There are meetings documented here. The witnesses said they have had two with the ICMSA and one with the IFA, and will have further meetings. At whose request were those meetings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: What issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Can I ask one question on that in passing to save us returning to it later? Would the recent announcement by the EPA that our peatland is now emitting 60% less-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: -----have a bearing on the environmental conditions that were set when we looked for state aid, given that our European colleagues and friends set them on the basis of the original EPA figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I hope I am not next in line to Senator Lombard the day he decides he will not be brief. Nearly everything has been covered. I have a couple of hypothetical questions. I know the answer Mr. Gleeson will possibly give, which will be that it is a political decision. We all know and we all admit that at this stage we need solutions. It is not about how we got to where we are. We will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: If the Minister said to this to Mr. Gleeson in the morning, would he then be flagging to the Minister that this is a great idea and would maybe get us up and running? I am asking if we have to go back to Europe on the state aid rules. Could we do that if the Minister or Government were to change their policy and targets? Could we just do it here or would we end up going back for more state...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Were the sums built around it? Why did state aid kick in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: We are going to have approximately 400 ha of trees maturing in 2050 that were sowed this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Does the Department not agree with the theory of incentivising? Were we to reach 6,000 ha, that would be an achievement in itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: But what if we do not achieve it? I think 6,000 ha is better than having a target of 8,000 ha and not achieving it. I am asking the hypothetical question while it is a political decision, not Mr. Gleeson's decision, I would like to get his opinion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: That is not what they tell us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: What issues were raised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Mr. Egan is saying the refund was paid out but perhaps it should not have been, so there was a change. Mr. Egan was wrong beforehand. We will accept that it is right not to pay it now. It has changed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I would like answers to the four questions I asked regarding the theoretical milk tank purchases in 2021 and 2023. What is the current situation if I was putting the milk tank into the old shed and I had to widen the door or make some structural changes to get it in? Is it then considered structural, although it is not a new shed? What is the difference between the meal bin being bolted to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Welfare Concerns and Compliance with Legislation: County and City Management Association (1 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I will read the note on privilege. Witnesses giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to a committee. This means they have a full defence in any defamation action for anything said at a committee meeting. However, witnesses are expected not to abuse this privilege and may be directed to cease giving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Welfare Concerns and Compliance with Legislation: County and City Management Association (1 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Go raibh maith agat. I have a couple of questions and a bit of expansion on the opening statement. In the current circumstances under which the CCMA works, how does it find that it is answerable to the Department of housing and local government, yet when there is an issue with a horse or animal, it will invariably end up with the Department of agriculture? Council vets will probably be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Welfare Concerns and Compliance with Legislation: County and City Management Association (1 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Regarding the prohibition of horses being ridden or jaunted or pulling carriages on roads, with exceptions, I presume Mr. Condon means that there would be the potential, if that change were to happen, for anybody concerned to apply for a licence. He mentioned Killarney. I know he is talking about the jaunting cars and the roads they use but there are loads of genuine examples. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Welfare Concerns and Compliance with Legislation: County and City Management Association (1 May 2024)

Paul Daly: The final issue is what Mr. Condon finished up on: identification of owners and ownership and the property owned by somebody. He said they would need to have a certain amount of property before they could be recognised as a horse owner. How does one prove somebody is a horse owner? Mr. Condon also mentioned the broad database. If there is an issue with horses, you will not be long finding...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Daly: Like others this morning, I welcome the announcement of the €79.5 million towards the crop affected by ash dieback and the growers who have been affected big-time on this. It is an issue I have raised previously. I warmly welcome today's announcement which will go some way to compensate those people and help them to get a crop reinstated. As everyone will be aware, nothing could...