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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-10-15/22/
15 Oct 2019 - My Department devotes considerable resources to protecting animal welfare and dealing with breaches of...animal welfare legislation....The Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 has modernised the legal framework relating to the welfare of...and not threaten the health and welfare of that animal....My Department's work on animal welfare is further underpinned by the operation of the animal welfare
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-04-24/387/
24 Apr 2012 - Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Deputy Simon Coveney) Under the Animal Health and Welfare...Cats owned as pets, or otherwise, are classed as "protected animals" within the meaning of the Bill and...My Department provides in excess of €1million annually to animal welfare organisations involved in the...provision of animal welfare services....to assist them achieve high standards of animal welfare including reminding them to endeavour where
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-10-03/37/
3 Oct 2017 - Health and Welfare Act 2013, which ensures the highest standards in animal welfare are maintained and...health and welfare with the highly important All Island Animal Health and Welfare Strategy being delivered...welfare groups and activists in highlighting animal welfare issues; and calls: — on the Government...deliver animal care and welfare services; and — on the Government to ensure that the All Island Animal...Health and Welfare Act 2013, which ensures high standards in animal welfare and that strict sanctioning
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Debate: Committee Of Public Accounts
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/committee_of_public_accounts/2019-10-24/5/
24 Oct 2019 - Brendan Gleeson We are responsible for animal welfare on farms....Bord na gCon has a statutory responsibility for animal welfare among greyhounds.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-10-19/6/
19 Oct 2017 - — that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s contribution to animal welfare charities...(in excess of €2.4 million paid in 2016) plays an important role in protecting animal welfare;
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-03-22/25/
22 Mar 2005 - Ireland has been to the fore in promoting animal welfare within the European Union....The European Community has been active on animal welfare for more than 20 years....aimed at improving the welfare conditions of transported animals....regime that protects the welfare of animals being exported....New tighter animal welfare conditions applying in respect of the granting of export refunds on live animals
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-06-01/347/
1 Jun 2010 - Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Deputy Brendan Smith) Drafting of the Animal Health and...Welfare Bill, which gives effect to commitments in the Programme for Government and the Renewed Programme...for Government on issues relating to animal health and welfare, is ongoing in my Department....reflect the changed disease status of our animals....Existing legislation will also be updated to ensure that the welfare of all animals, including non-farm
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-09-16/627/
16 Sep 2009 - Health and Welfare Bill which will give effect to a number of commitments in the area of animal health...and welfare contained in the Programme for Government ....that the welfare of all animals, including non-farm animals, is properly protected and penalties for...all animals within my Department....health and welfare matters.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2010-03-09/10/
9 Mar 2010 - welfare....I agree with her that we should have a serious debate and the Bill should fundamentally be about animal...welfare....put forward by the Senator that those who purport to be concerned about animal welfare have only animal...welfare as their concern.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-11-03/121/
3 Nov 2011 - The Programme for Government 2011 contains a commitment to amend and strengthen legislation on animal...cruelty and animal welfare....The main vehicle to fulfil this commitment will be the Animal Health and Welfare Bill which is a comprehensive...piece of legislation providing a broad basis for regulating the related but distinct areas of animal...health and welfare and consolidating animal welfare legislation dating back more than 100 years into
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-06-27/77/
27 Jun 2006 - Primary responsibility for protecting the welfare of animals rests with the owners or keepers of the...These officers deal with the implementation of animal welfare legislation as well as having responsibilities...In 2004 the Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Council (FAWAC) developed an Early Warning/Intervention System...(EWS) for dealing with animal welfare cases involving my Department, Irish Farmers' Association and...The objective of the system is to provide a framework within which farm animal welfare problems can be
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-01-11/484/
11 Jan 2012 - Marine (Deputy Simon Coveney) My Department's legislative responsibility currently extends to the welfare...and the European Communities (Welfare of Farmed Animals) Regulations 2010, S.I. 311 of 2010....cruelty and animal welfare....The main instrument to fulfil this commitment will be the Animal Health and Welfare Bill which is a wide-ranging...piece of legislation providing a broad basis for regulating the related areas of animal health and welfare
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-11-29/356/
29 Nov 2011 - Coveney) The Programme for Government 2011 contains a commitment to amend and strengthen legislation on animal...cruelty and animal welfare....The main vehicle to fulfil this commitment will be the Animal Health and Welfare Bill which is a comprehensive...piece of legislation providing a broad basis for regulating the related areas of animal health and welfare
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-09-14/578/
14 Sep 2011 - Coveney) The Programme for Government 2011 contains a commitment to amend and strengthen legislation on animal...cruelty and animal welfare....The main vehicle to fulfil this commitment will be the Animal Health and Welfare Bill which is a comprehensive...piece of legislation providing a broad basis for regulating the related but distinct areas of animal...health and welfare.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-10-03/37/
3 Oct 2017 - Health and Welfare Act 2013 in respect of animal welfare offences; acknowledges the extensive system...animal welfare; notes: — the extended national animal welfare inspection capability through service...respect of animal welfare offences since the introduction of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013,...Monitoring of animal welfare has been raised in this debate....Animal welfare is an important issue.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-07-12/276/
12 Jul 2011 - for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Deputy Simon Coveney) I support the thrust of the EU policy on Animal...Welfare (EUPAW) which is to define more clearly the direction of Community policies on animal welfare...and the continued promotion of high welfare standards among all animal species including horses, in...welfare standards....welfare legislation is correctly enforced across Europe.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-12-14/230/
14 Dec 2010 - Mindful too of the work carried out by welfare bodies in delivering animal welfare, in December 2009...my Department made ex-gratia payments totalling €1.185m to 112 animal welfare organisations to assist...Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Council and they have asked those welfare organisations that have the capacity..., owners and keepers are ultimately responsible for protecting the welfare of animals in their care....and welfare legislation to ensure that the welfare of all animals, including non-farmed animals, is
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-07-09/3/
9 Jul 2009 - The Tánaiste The animal health and welfare Bill relates to the health of animals, not that of farmers
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-03-04/255/
4 Mar 2008 - Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Deputy Mary Coughlan) The Programme for Government contains a number of animal...welfare-related commitments including one to consolidate responsibility for the welfare of all animals..., including non-farm animals, within my Department....Other such commitments include the updating of existing legislation to ensure that the welfare of animals...The preparation of comprehensive legislation in the form of a draft Animal Health and Welfare Bill, to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-11-16/272/
16 Nov 2010 - and Welfare Bill, which gives effect to commitments in the Programme for Government and the Renewed...Programme for Government on issues relating to animal health and welfare is ongoing in my Department....The new Bill will consolidate and update a wide range of existing legislation to ensure that the welfare...of all animals, including non-farm animals, is properly protected and that the penalties for offenders...health and welfare matters.
