asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will agree that the pictures taken at a coursing meeting in Clonmel and recently published in the media (details supplied) clearly illustrate the barbaric and cruel nature of hare coursing; and whether he will consider requesting the Joint Committee on Legislation to review the existing law which permits live hare coursing and request them to seek public submissions to ascertain the level of public support for the enactment of legislation to ban hare coursing and to empower them to prepare the necessary draft legislation if the submissions received by the committee confirm that there is overwhelming public support for the enactment of such legislation.
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