Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I cannot accept this and I will tell Mr. Meaney why. It is because I have so many reports before me. The problem was that the recommendations were not implemented. Had the Dalton report been implemented and acted upon in 2006, or any of the reports been acted on, we would not be in serious trouble. I am specifically asking the witnesses about this but I get an answer that they have been implemented except one. I go back to the first recommendation and I ask about it and I am told it has not yet been implemented.

We have 11 recommendations. The first one is very important, but all of them are very important. I will now turn to recommendation 11, which I thought was a misprint, where it states, "The Committee recommends that the ongoing issues concerning the breeding of greyhounds with dogs deceased for two years or more, registered in the stud book by the ICC, must be addressed immediately". Has that been addressed? I now know what it means because I made inquiries; the semen from a dead dog is kept for two years and its use is allowed for the two year period for the purposes of breeding in four studs throughout the country.