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)

3:05 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge that the Minister has recast section 32 by tabling amendment No. 60. It is an improvement on what was there before. I also accept the Minister's statement that one cannot value individual chickens or whatever. My worry is that a Minister could start issuing guidelines that would mean that people would not get full compensation at the value on the day. I will reflect on the issue. We have a new section. Of course I would like to have a section amended to state that all these regulations would have to come before the House, which we can do on Report Stage.

I will move my amendment later. In the meantime, I will reflect on what the Minister has said in his explanations, then we can come back to this on Report Stage.

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