Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)

I am very glad to have an opportunity to speak on this highly emotive issue. I welcome each and every one of the organisations before the committee. Their members are very welcome. As a unit the committee, under our very able Cathaoirleach, promises to do our best for them. I was upset one morning when I heard people saying no one in Ireland was listening to them and that they would go to Europe. By all means they can go to Europe but we are, and have been, listening to them. We have been out in the fields where the damage has been done. We know what is involved and what happens when little lambs and sheep are torn and mangled. We know all of this. We support most of what the witnesses have said. There should be microchipping. I am worried about how the DNA sampling would work. As Mr. Molloy has said, we cannot go into houses.