Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 March 2019

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I said, we might then simply provide for use of fresh semen and frozen semen. Who is to say what is permitted if something else comes in later? It would not be provided for. Section 26(1)(h) provides that the board may, with the consent of the Minister, make regulations controlling the practice of artificial insemination of greyhounds in relation to the "setting of standards and procedures to be followed by veterinary practitioners and for the standards and procedures to be observed at such centres and for such inseminations". That is only one measure in a list that goes on in that vein.

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