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Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: ...year. That shows how much citizens are engaged in trying to deal with these issues. Only 16 cases were finalised in court and the penalties imposed were ridiculously low. Deputy O'Sullivan dealt with badger culling and so on. I want to deal with badger baiting, which is illegal in this State but which, as we speak here tonight, is happening. It is an absolutely reprehensible, cruel,...

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (30 Nov 2016)

Clare Daly: ...survey by University College Dublin and indeed members of the Minister's Department describes very clearly instances in which a decline in cattle infection appeared to be directly correlated to badger culling, absolutely, but there were other examples where culling appeared to have little or no effect. In 2011, the Minister's Department found considerable, but not conclusive, evidence of...

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (30 Nov 2016)

Clare Daly: Badgers, as we know, are a protected species, yet the Department annually culls 6,000 of them in a practice which the Irish Wildlife Trust has described as inhumane and barbaric. The trust has cited many instances of lactating females being culled while their cubs are left to starve underground. We have long been promised a vaccination programme as an alternative. What is going on? When...

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (30 Nov 2016)

Clare Daly: Rabies was eliminated from European foxes using baited vaccine many years ago. The idea that we have been discussing a vaccination programme for badgers for 25 years is quite shocking. The Minister's reply to the effect that it will take us a further two years before we see any progress in this direction is most concerning. This is against the backdrop of firm information to the effect...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bovine Disease Controls (27 Oct 2016)

Clare Daly: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the effectiveness of the badger culling strategy incorporated into the national TB eradication programme in reducing the incidence of bovine TB; his further views on plans by his Department to initiate a badger vaccination programme as an alternative to culling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32196/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (14 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 18. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the continued culling of badgers, and the impact on the badger population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18655/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (23 Sep 2014)

Clare Daly: 24. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify his previous statements that his Department does not use snares in the culling of badgers and his plans with reports that show this practise is taking place. [35157/14]

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2013)

Clare Daly: ...animal or the use of canines to extract wild animals that have gone to ground, (c) the digging out of any wild animal gone to ground, (d) the use of ferrets for the hunting of an animal, (e) the culling of badgers, (f) the use of wild animals in circus performances.".