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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: ...2017. The TB forum is something that we need to acknowledge and it is very worthy. I ask the Minister to clarify how the forum will work so that Ireland is TB free by 2030. How does he think the badger vaccination programme or the start of same is working? What about the announcements published in newspapers today on the outlook for TB and herd restrictions? One of the issues that I...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...type of ground, if anyone in the House does not know it, people cannot operate a lawn-mower, a mowing machine or a forage harvester. The only way they can clean these places is by what I would call controlled burning. Farmers are being blamed for burning and gorse fires. I want to mention two sad stories from places where people did not get their payments for their Christmas dinner, in...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...and the very rich can no longer use their wealth to influence politics in the way they did in the past.  It is so different and so much better than other countries where big money has far too much influence on policy.We have also had a major reform of the public appointments system with an open call through www.stateboards.ieand the appearance of chairpersons designate before the...

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: ...a nation. The other issue is rural decline and depopulation. Yesterday evening at 8 o'clock, I was at a meeting in Drumkeeran community centre in County Leitrim. It was about a small school called Tarmon school, which is on the shores of Lough Allen. Last year and this year, no child has started in the school. The three children in sixth class are leaving next year and if no more...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing (10 Oct 2017)

Heather Humphreys: ...to out National Parks and Reserves and in regard to our obligations under theBirds and Habitats Directives. They also investigate reports of breaches of the Acts including illegal snaring of badgers, habitat protection issues, as well as monitoring compliance at coursing events etc. Members of An Garda Síochána are also empowered under the Acts to investigate alleged offences and...

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...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...providing it. They are not anarchists who do not allow free speech and prevent everyone else from doing things any way other than their own way. There is nothing worse than liberals who cannot get their way. They are very demanding, badgering, insulting to other people and bullying. There is nothing worse than them. We hear them here every day of the week. There is nothing worse than...

Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...it. The Garda and superintendent Pat O'Connor have studied electronic tagging and I am sure the Minister and her officials are aware of it. I am not comparing humans to animals but in Scotland there was a study that used electronic tags on badgers to help combat bovine TB. The tags enabled the tracing of the badgers through the land and the checking of times. It shows how easy it would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities of Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Discussion (25 Oct 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

...measures that have been introduced, including interferon gamma blood testing, have had a significant impact on disease levels through earlier removal of reactors. The significant reduction can also be attributed to the wildlife and badger removal programme. At the same time, Animal Health Ireland is working on production or non-regulated diseases which affect farming productivity but are...

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....

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...have nowhere to turn when faced with a rent increase. We all want to see people in employment but if those who are employed cannot afford the increase in rent that will add to the numbers on the homeless list, which will interfere with their ability to work and result in them needing emergency accommodation. I get such calls every day from lone parents who work and who pay their rent but...

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...

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.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...over the top and too surreal. Even by the extremely low standards of crony capitalism in Ireland, this is scraping the barrel. These deals are incredible. As the leader of the Labour Party and the so-called watchdog in the Government, I ask the Tánaiste to address herself to why these happened under her watch and why we have not heard a peep from her all about them. That a man...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: ..., including by way of creditor capitalisation or through the European Union which should have recapitalised them by writing off ELA. Let us move forward to February 2013 and the introduction of so-called emergency legislation to liquidate IBRC and, more sinisterly, turn flimsy promissory notes, IOUs, into solemn national debt of €30 billion. With 20 minutes notice we were asked...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...interested in education. The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, stated DEIS is our primary mechanism for systematically promoting greater equity within the school system, and that we are seeing compelling evidence that DEIS works in primary schools. Even now, there are calls coming in from DEIS schools about the danger of losing teachers because the numbers...

Access to the Countryside Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...land. It is ironic that we are still talking today about access to Irish land for Irish people. There have been many changes during the years, but landowners continue to deny access to responsible people. We hear of court cases in which people are trying to determine access to what were historically public rights of way. That has been costly for walkers and hikers. Some of the cases...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: ...tax amounts to a week's income. The public sector workers should take on both the property tax and these proposed cuts to their wages and conditions - hatched appropriately in this agreement in a place called Beggars Bush - beggaring the low and middle-income workers concerned. They should take on the property tax and mount a massive campaign of opposition, mobilisation and industrial...

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...