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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Deer Cull (10 Jun 2015)

Simon Coveney: ...relation to wildlife, including deer, and are available to discuss these issues with herdowners. However, my Department has no statutory role in the management of wild deer and has no authority to call for a national cull. In relation to the Wicklow study on deer, my Department applied for and was granted a licence by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to shoot deer out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022) See 5 other results from this debate

...on testing and what the Exchequer is taking back out of it. We are looking to put extra funding into that and front-load the testing or maybe do PCR testing. There are so many aspects, including deer, badgers, inconclusive results, and testing, that need to be pulled together. There is not just one thing. Everything that can be done by farmers inside a farm gate has been thrown at us...

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (14 May 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: There must be other reasons for the reduction in the levels of bovine TB. This cull of badgers has been called slaughter masquerading as science.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (11 Dec 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Michelle Mulherin: ...committee, as are a number of my colleagues, and we would love to be able to say the same thing about the climate change targets. There is a map of Ireland on the last page of the statement, called figure 3, which shows that County Monaghan and the surrounding areas are a hotspot or red spot for the incidence of TB. It was stated that the issue had worsened in the past few years, thus...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022) See 3 other results from this debate

Mr. Hugh Farrell: I will respond to Deputy Carthy's questions on the badger vaccination. It is something we brought up on numerous occasions at the TB Forum. It was not mentioned here but I want to make it known that we brought it up at an earlier stage in the TB programme. We questioned the number of counties that were being done and the way it was being extended throughout the country....

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...to animals, particularly the hare but also the greyhound. I accept what the Minister said about the eradication of TB. Is there independent peer-reviewed scientific evidence on the efficiency of badger culling as opposed to pursuing a vaccination programme? Is it true that €70 million of our money went on the TB eradication programme in 2011, which involved the culling of...

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012) See 1 other result from this debate

Simon Coveney: .... There is a series of conflicting views on what constitutes the right balance where activities such as hare coursing are concerned, and I will address this in some detail in a moment. The badger culling programme, which is part of the TB eradication programme, has been hugely successful over the past ten years in terms of the number of reactors in Ireland which has more than halved...

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

Clare Daly: ...acknowledges for a couple of reasons. Cruelty to animals is symptomatic of a deeper malaise in society and extends to a mistreatment of other vulnerable groups. It has also been scientifically demonstrated that those who exploit and show gratuitous and wanton cruelty towards animals often end up displaying similar behaviour towards their fellow human beings. We in Independents 4 Change...

Other Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: ...of continuing the bailout of bankers and bondholders at the expense of public sector workers and continuing the flow of money to the former. Has the Minister reflected on the bullying and the badgering he has engaged in over the past two months? He has threatened public sector workers that, unless they swallow these cuts, they would be savagely implemented anyway. Following the clear...

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...including any unnecessary suffering whether caused by direct physical abuse, recklessness or negligence. I welcome that. I now refer to where the legislation falls down. My first point deals with badgers. I accept that we are not fully free of bovine TB and that control measures are necessary but such measures could be carried out in a humane way, not through the most barbaric, gruesome...

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: ...to ask the Taoiseach about the animal health and welfare Bill which is listed in section C of promised legislation, the heads of Bills yet to be approved by Government. I ask about some of the so-called concessions agreed between Fianna Fáil and the Green Party last week with regard to animal welfare. These are included in what is termed the programme for Government but I would refer to...

Seanad: Care of the Elderly (11 Feb 2009)

John Paul Phelan: ...two situations seem to be remarkably similar. In fact, they are almost identical. The HSE is discussing closing St. Brigid's ward before new beds have been provided. This is unacceptable. To be badgering, hounding and harassing elderly people in the twilight years of their lives in such a fashion is disgraceful to be perfectly honest. The HSE has become a monster. It does not seem to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hare Coursing (6 Dec 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...While it is wonderful in theory, there are many examples in which it does not work. I need only mention puppy farms, the fox incident about which the Minister knows well as it took place in Cork, badger issues, live hare coursing and fur farming. Hurling, camogie, basketball, rugby and soccer are sports. There is no glossing over the cruelty involved in live hare coursing, which cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

...the facts. I want to be very clear that I am not trying to suggest that the situation is hopeless. Based on all the evidence I have put together and much work by much people, if we are to realistically shift towards eradication, we need to do much more. We must be very focused for all the reasons I outlined. To reply to Deputies Cahill and Kenny on the accuracy of the test, the tests...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (9 Nov 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: Bovine TB is caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium bovis (M bovis), with infection endemic in cattle and badgers in Ireland. Birds are not susceptible to infection with this bacteria, and so cannot become carriers. While many mammalian species may become infected with M bovis (including humans), these are generally spillover infections rather than the result of ongoing circulation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

...capital investment plan for the STEM disciplines. If we do not have that, all the talk about a knowledge economy is nonsense. Second, this will sound funny coming from an engineer working in a so-called STEM area, I have spoken to career guidance teachers about this and I am aware that secondary school leavers feel badgered into doing STEM courses. It is coding, coding and more coding....

Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Feb 2019)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...are one of the few countries where fur farming continues and we know the appalling conditions in which minks are kept and the dangers to the environment when they escape. We know about the cruelty in badger baiting and that of so-called puppy farming establishments. We know about battery hens and now we have battery pups. These are some examples of the wider picture and the shameful way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

...in line with what the customer has allowed us to do in terms of contact with them. There is a cut-off point between where communicating with a customer is helpful and where it reaches the point of badgering, for want of a better word, so we have to get that balance right. Awareness will grow and momentum will build as regards the campaigns we are seeing from other banks encouraging...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)

Catherine Byrne: ...mortar. It is what happens inside those walls that matters. This is a very stressful time for many young people and many people who have lost their jobs. We should not use it in this Chamber to badger each other. We should use it to solve the problems out there. Perhaps the Minister might take the following matter into consideration. All of the banks have a responsibility to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Diseases (1 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...this disease is confined to national parks? Most importantly, why is the NPWS not asking for a cull - by gassing - of all rabbits within a five-mile radius of the affected areas, as was done with badgers during the bovine TB epidemic? What is going on in the Department? Many people are suspicious. As rabbits are classed as vermin, the obvious reason for not culling, or for not calling...