Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am delighted to have an opportunity to discuss this issue, but we are in the wrong forum and doing it the wrong way. I am not saying this in an unnecessary adversarial way. However, there is something disproportionate in the way we do business in this House. Yesterday evening we spent two hours discussing the issue of the docking of dogs' tails. This is an important issue of contention with which the Oireachtas committee on agriculture must deal and I have no doubt it will take up more of our time, as many such issues do. However, when we compare that issue to the one we are debating through formal statements, we see huge disproportionality in how this matter is being investigated and decided on.

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