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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-09/15/
9 May 2019 - Animal Welfare
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-09/15/
9 May 2019 - of hunting during the passage of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 and the Dáil voted overwhelmingly.... The Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 specifically prohibits the hunting of animals which have been... released in an injured, mutilated or exhausted condition. Section 25 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act... fully committed to promoting good practices that respect the welfare of animals, and my Department... devotes considerable resources to protecting animal welfare and in dealing with breaches of animal
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2019-05-21/3/
21 May 2019 - interests of animal health and welfare, veterinary practitioners and farmers to change
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2019-05-21/4/
21 May 2019 - interests of animal health and welfare, veterinary practitioners and farmers to change
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2019-05-21/3/
21 May 2019 - Council of Ireland acts in the public interest and the best interests of animal health and welfare. He... of its registrants in the best interests of the public and animal health and welfare.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-15/46/
15 May 2019 - . They revolve around animal welfare and ensuring that greyhounds are treated well in Ireland... and if they are sent abroad. We are either committed to animal welfare or not. We have plenty of examples... they will not be treated properly and where animal welfare regulations are lacking. If the amendments... exactly what happens in such countries because animal welfare groups have the evidence and it can... as it might be, to ensure their welfare. I reiterate that it is not as though we do not know what happens
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2019-05-21/3/
21 May 2019 - in public interest and the best interests of animal health and welfare. If there are inconsistencies... for the benefit of registrants, the public interest and the best interests of animal health and welfare
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2019-05-21/4/
21 May 2019 - in public interest and the best interests of animal health and welfare. If there are inconsistencies... for the benefit of registrants, the public interest and the best interests of animal health and welfare
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-15/46/
15 May 2019 - relating to the welfare of greyhounds and the welfare of animals more generally, (b) the existence... meet minimum standards with regard to the welfare of greyhounds, and to which the licensed export... in the relevant country of enforceable welfare protections for greyhounds which are equivalent... of the welfare protections referred to in paragraph (b) , and (d) the standards of care and management
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-06-13/18/
13 Jun 2019 - and that the ban was a progressive move reflective of our commitment to animal welfare. The exact same statement... on animal rights, which Ireland currently is, or will it agree to support the Bill? Alternatively..., will it do what it did with circus animals, an issue on which Solidarity had a Bill pending, when it made... a ministerial order to ban the use of wild animals in circuses? At the time in November 2017
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-15/46/
15 May 2019 - undertaken with the animal welfare groups but our amendments are about going that extra step to ensure... are where there is no animal welfare legislation or where there is a little and it is not enforced... greyhounds and what might happen them. I want the Bill to do well but other animal welfare Bills have... our animals are not knowingly being sent to a country where they will be mistreated. Amendment
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-15/46/
15 May 2019 - in a number of reports on the sector. The Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011 and the Animal Health... not here to defend any country's record on animal welfare. The amendments would be unworkable... of protecting the welfare of animals, despite our differences in respect of the amendments.... The Department has a close working relationship with animal welfare charities in respect of all aspects... of animal welfare. Officials at the Department have met the welfare members of the International
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2019-05-21/4/
21 May 2019 - in animal welfare. Will the witnesses respond to this and set out how the council is addressing this issue... more vets who want to go into large animal practice from the veterinary school in UCD. As we have all... qualifications are being brought in. They have no experience of large animal practice and may not have... to keep up with the workload they have. We all know dealing with large animals is a very heavy type... from large animal practice because those working in them have no life.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2019-05-21/3/
21 May 2019 - in animal welfare. Will the witnesses respond to this and set out how the council is addressing this issue... more vets who want to go into large animal practice from the veterinary school in UCD. As we have all... qualifications are being brought in. They have no experience of large animal practice and may not have... to keep up with the workload they have. We all know dealing with large animals is a very heavy type... from large animal practice because those working in them have no life.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-09/7/
9 May 2019 - stand by now. We will insist on the highest standards for animal welfare. The role of the Department... and obligation to ensure that live exports are conducted to the highest welfare standards, bearing in mind... welfare standard. Given the importance of live exports to the agri-economy - the value of which is more... to the highest welfare standards. Nothing less than that will be condoned or tolerated by the Department.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-15/46/
15 May 2019 - standards for animal welfare and all of the other amendments that seek to give impact... or the protection of the health and life for humans, animals or plants. Clearly, there is a legal basis... Trust, and is simply to protect the animals because we have had endless horror stories of what has... a greyhound welfare Bill in my own name. Until then, the Minister of State should give serious
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-09/30/
9 May 2019 - the Animal Health and Welfare Act and the Control of Horses Act. Those Acts are highly questionable... to bring in horse welfare measures that are robust. If the 1853, 1854 and 1855 Acts are repealed quickly... carriage drivers to be responsible and to look after their horses as well. This is not about animal... welfare - these drivers look after their horses. The Minister referred to other Acts including
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-09/11/
9 May 2019 - of the monitoring committee, which it received in 2016 and 2017 but not in 2018. No independent animal... welfare body is represented on the monitoring committee. At the 2017 meeting the CEO of the Irish
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2019-05-21/4/
21 May 2019 - include the welfare related benefits of having animals with their mothers at grass for between six... animals for export, has been reduced from €4.80 to €1.20 per calf on foot of some lobbying in recent years... animal exported is also significant. This means a budgetary contribution of more than €500,000 is made... as a result of live exports across all the animals that are exported. We invest that on behalf..., and there has been a decline of 35,000 so far this year. More animals from a dairy background are coming
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-09/15/
9 May 2019 - . There are alarming reports from people involved in animal welfare of the conditions in which the dogs... on this? Just before Christmas the Cork Dog Action Welfare Group had to close because it could not take in any
