Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Sheahan has much work done and I have praised the cattle system. There is a fairly big cloud over this between comments that have been passed in the media and then this programme last night, which I hope we will look at later on. For the sake of an industry that is pretty big in this country, can we not give a commitment to be the leaders in Europe? We were the leaders at stopping people smoking in a pub. Can we not be the leaders in this, in such a way that we will go down this road within the next six months and say there is an amnesty or whatever you want for the next six months? After that, for each horse, the Department or whatever authorised officer will have a backup for everything belonging to that horse in this country. Can we not be given that commitment today?