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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: Just to clarify, many of us with farms have used artificial insemination for bovines, for example. The semen comes in a frozen canister and is administered in a way with which those of us involved in agriculture are familiar. The use of frozen semen is artificial insemination. There is a distinction-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: The legislation uses the word "semen". Semen has to be partially chilled or frozen for artificial insemination.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: To go back to my original statement, section 26(1) allows the board to make regulations with the consent of the Minister, setting down in secondary legislation the precise type of distinction or restriction. The legislation refers to artificial insemination and Deputy Cahill is saying that there is a difference between that and the use of frozen semen. There may well be, at some stage,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: It is all artificial insemination.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: The legislation allows for secondary legislation to specify that, as it stands. It is there-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: As I said, we might then simply provide for use of fresh semen and frozen semen. Who is to say what is permitted if something else comes in later? It would not be provided for. Section 26(1)(h) provides that the board may, with the consent of the Minister, make regulations controlling the practice of artificial insemination of greyhounds in relation to the "setting of standards and...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: Section 26(1)(l) refers to "setting the maximum number of registered services by insemination of greyhounds permissible during a specified time period, either generally in relation to greyhound sires or in relation to classes of greyhound sires or individual greyhound sires". Section 26 deals in the broadest terms possible with the whole area of artificial insemination of greyhounds. It...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: He can do so under secondary legislation.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: Under secondary legislation, the board can request it. We have already set out in an earlier section the need to have a veterinary practitioner on the board. The board can set out measures in secondary legislation in consultation with the forum, if it is deemed necessary, and with the consent of the Minister. Section 26(1)(a) prohibits "persons from engaging in the practice of the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: Deputy Cahill is trying to narrow it down.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: Yes he is. He is trying to limit rather than expand it. That is what he is doing.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: I disagree – I am sorry.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: No. I do understand.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: I do not have that information. I suspect the Deputy does not have it either.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: Deputy Cahill has just contradicted himself. Using frozen semen is artificial insemination. It is not natural.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: Deputy Cahill has drawn the distinction. He has just implied that the use of frozen semen is natural. That is what he has just implied.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: The Deputy is distinguishing between that and artificial insemination.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: With due respect-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: As I understand it, "fresh chilled frozen semen" is the term generally used. What the Deputy said was that we were allowing a Bill that dealt with artificial insemination but not frozen semen. That is why I said he was drawing a distinction and implying that the use of frozen semen was not artificial insemination, but it is. This Bill and this section allow for the broadest possible...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Andrew Doyle: The legislation refers to "artificial insemination". It does not mention "fresh", "chilled" or "frozen". It refers to "artificial insemination". It is as simple as that.