Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Section 26(1)(l) refers to "setting the maximum number of registered services by insemination of greyhounds permissible during a specified time period, either generally in relation to greyhound sires or in relation to classes of greyhound sires or individual greyhound sires". Section 26 deals in the broadest terms possible with the whole area of artificial insemination of greyhounds. It allows for secondary legislation in a host of areas that are all-encompassing. I take the Deputy's point that what we are trying to do is ensure nothing is left out, but nothing is left out because frozen semen is artificial insemination no matter what way we look at it. It is not natural and so it has to be artificial.