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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...with the Acting Cathaoirleach. He tried to stop Deputy Mattie McGrath from reading out this letter. Other people may not have noticed it. In case anyone was not looking at the Minister, he badgered the Acting Cathaoirleach to try to stop Deputy Mattie McGrath from reading out this letter. The Minister refused to accept a copy of the letter when it was given to him. This happens to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Welfare (29 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...to understand that, if gardaí are involved, incidents are not recorded on PULSE. Abuse of animals is, sadly, a reality in Ireland. Whether we are talking about hares, greyhounds, horses, badgers, foxes or puppy farms, that is the reality. I am continually told that we have the legislation - the Animal Welfare Acts and the Control of Horses Act - as if they were covering and...

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)

Andrew Doyle: ...infringement. Zero levels is slightly different. I believe we are on the same page here. We both want zero tolerance. I refer to Senator Ruane's analogy. Dogs and animals interact with humans all of the time. Dogs brush off people's clothes when they are walking them, they put head collars on them and a thing on them. The human may not know they are contaminated. It is an airborne...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (15 Nov 2018)

Josepha Madigan: My remit in this matter relates to the species protected under the Wildlife Acts and under the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011. All bird species are protected and animals such as badgers, deer, otters, bats and hares are also protected. Officials of the National Parks and Wildlife Service of my Department monitor compliance with the Wildlife Acts and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (10 Oct 2018)

Michael Creed: Field trials testing the effectiveness of badger vaccination as an alternative to removal were conducted from 2014 to 2017 in areas where the wildlife program had been running in excess of 5 years and where local densities of badgers were considered low enough to be suitable candidates for vaccination with BCG. The findings confirmed that vaccination of badgers can play a role in reducing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Tim Lombard: ...next phase. I hope that the Minister will engage with the pillar banks to ensure that there is no blockage, and work is done to ensure that the banks engage with the agricultural community thus allowing funding to flow. During the summer a very interesting TB forum took place and the Minister announced that the new chairman is Mr. Michael Cronin. The incidence of TB has dramatically...

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): Bovine Disease Controls (25 Sep 2018)

Andrew Doyle: I thank the Senator. I am working on the assumption Animal Health Ireland is working on an all-island basis in regard to eradication, given the animal health status needs to be all-island based. There is a slightly different control regime in the UK. We have started a vaccination programme in the vaccination areas and this is being rolled out on badgers. With regard to the length of time...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (7 Sep 2018)

Michael Creed: The numbers of badgers culled annually are published as part of the Annual Report of the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and I attach for the Deputy’s convenience the figures for 2015 and 2016 extracted from those Annual Reports – tables 1 and 2 below. While the figures for 2017 are not yet published, I am in a...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ..., Acting Chairman. I have no gripe with birds, bees or any other thing like that, and I would love to hear the curlew singing. However, they have the countryside besides the roadside - they have all the rest of the country. We are not saying when the hedges should be cut in the rest of the country. In addition, we are asking that farmers be allowed to burn their scrubland because...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...spoke about the bees. In that regard, there is an obligation on farmers in GLAS to put out sand. I do contracting. I bale for people and they have their sand out in the field, which has actually improved the number of bees. The problem is that the badgers are coming out, eating the honey and killing some of the bees. I have seen it. Farmers will tell the Deputy what is going on but...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (29 May 2018)

Michael Creed: ...time to time clusters of outbreaks - as can be expected with an infectious contagious disease - occur in defined geographical locations. 12 herds are currently experiencing a TB breakdown in the Ballyduff Upper area, Co. Waterford. The breakdowns commenced in Autumn/Winter 2017 and early Spring 2018. One herd has since gone clear. In total, 200 reactors have been removed from a total of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (17 May 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ...Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 to 2015. Members of An Garda Síochána are also empowered under the Wildlife Acts and European Communities Regulations to investigate alleged offences and to prosecute if they see fit. Of my Department’s total staff, I understand that some 330 work in the area of natural heritage through the NPWS of my...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (27 Feb 2018)

Michael Creed: ...operating protocols, where herds are identified with a serious outbreak of bovine tuberculosis, and where my Department’s epidemiological investigations into the cause of the breakdown implicates badgers as a possible source, a capturing program is set up in the local area. The aims of the program are to manage the local population of badgers downward to mitigate badger to cattle...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (13 Feb 2018)

Michael Creed: I am informed that the outbreak in the Iveragh Peninsula is largely confined to eight electoral divisions, namely Loughcurrane, Derriana, Canuig, Emlagh, Ballinskelligs, Castlequin, Bahaghs and Killinane. During 2017, 53 herds in these areas were restricted with a total of 302 reactors removed. 32 of the restrictions followed reactor disclosure at a contiguous herd test. Since the...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...;s speech, on my first occasion here as Taoiseach, is inspired by these themes. Instead of providing Senators with an account of the business of Government, telling you how well the economy is doing, and how we are facing the challenges of Brexit, housing and health care, issues on which you are already well informed, I want to share with you some thoughts on the renewal and reform of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Danny Healy-Rae: ...BirdWatch Ireland and the Hedge Laying Association of Ireland. I want to talk about roadside hedge cutting. Many people in rural Ireland, including me, believe that roadside hedges should be cut all year round for the safety of road users. There is no problem with restrictions inside ditches. The countryside is available for birds. As Deputy Ó Cuív said, birds are not so...

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: These people are well able to do this. If that were done, it would be a good thing. What is happening at the moment is that some of these so-called NGOs are telling us how to live our lives in rural parts of Ireland. There is a great deal of new legislation dealing with canals in this context. A previous speaker referred to the new de-designation of 48 national heritage areas. It is a...

National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Martin Kenny: ...good and that we want to see happen. An awful lot of it is very vague, however. That is one of the problems I have with it. I am thinking of the sections on agriculture, forestry, tourism and all of that for rural Ireland. There is an absence of vision for people to be able to live long lives in rural Ireland. That is what is needed if we are to regenerate the regions and rural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates For Public Services 2017: Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (4 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...in the Estimate for town and village renewal. Not one project has yet been sanctioned. The Minister cannot account for what happened after the end of July but she can account for what happened up to July. I have it all in parliamentary questions. There is €40 million for the Leader programme. I welcome that the Minister, Deputy Ring, has moved €5 million out of it into...

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Clare Daly: ...O'Sullivan who, like her predecessor, Tony Gregory, has been at the forefront in this State in raising issues of animal health and welfare. I salute her. I also acknowledge those present in the Gallery from a multitude of animal welfare groups throughout the State, many of whom have travelled long distances to be with us tonight. They are, by and large, volunteers who do what they do...