Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed)

10:50 am

Photo of Tom BarryTom Barry (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Farmers cannot take poison back out of burrows. We cannot insist that people send in notice every seven days because this just will not happen. What is proposed is completely impractical. There is no point in putting in legislation which will not be adhered to. County councils will not issue replies to letters of notice in any event.