Results 401-420 of 1,076,563 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Paul Daly OR speaker:Johnny Guirke OR speaker:Helen McEntee OR speaker:Simon Coveney OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh OR speaker:Kieran O'Donnell OR speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl OR speaker:Joan Collins) in 'Committee meetings'
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: That was the correct package.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: The €141,000 was paid over and above that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: But where was the €141,000 in the package, in the severance, in the terms and conditions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: Why then would it be here, in what I read out at the start? Why would it have to be camouflaged in accounts as being recorded as being part of a voluntary redundancy and early retirement scheme? It was not a voluntary redundancy; it was an early retirement scheme. Why was there a need for that false accounting, for want of a better term?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: Sorry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: That was the package. There was €141,000 on top of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: Mr. O'Loughlin has nearly covered anything. I will not hog the meeting because we have been here for nearly two years. I asked about redundancies and Mr. O'Loughlin answered at the end. I know he said it was done with HRI. Were the voluntary redundancies a cost-cutting measure or was the IHRB overstaffed? Why was there a voluntary redundancy scheme to start with? Compulsory redundancy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: I think it was reported it was two people during this period. There were two voluntary redundancies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: Were there unsuccessful applicants, for want of a better word, or was it just two people who took the package on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: That is all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: I thank Mr. O'Mahony and Dr. Barrett for coming before the committee this evening. This is something we have dealt with on a regular basis at the committee and on the field of play as farmers, which most of us here are. With the greatest respect to everybody involved, and there is no blame game here, as the opening statement relates, the situation is getting worse instead of better. I do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: Going back to where Dr. Barrett started there about DEFRA and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are they collaborating or are they two separate projects? If they are separate, which of them is the more advanced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: As I mentioned at the outset, if the vaccination is working with badgers, why will it not work with bovines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: Right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: I thank our witnesses and the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Paul Daly: Badgers are worse.
- Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
- Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to Second Stage of the Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020, taken on Thursday, 24 October 2024. On the question, "That the Bill be now read a Second Time", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2) that division must be taken now.
- Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)
Question put: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Dáil divided: Tá, 57; Níl, 69; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Peadar Tóibín and Seán Canney; Níl, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin.