Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed)
4:15 pm
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
No. In many cases, people will be fined on the spot through reasonable grounds while the Department will know not to go to court because it does not have sufficient evidence. Therefore, the risk of going to court is thrown from the Department onto the person. This is the problem.
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