Paul Daly (Fianna Fail)
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Where I am coming from, and what I am trying to get at, is that three or four weeks ago, before the Department got the tip-off from RTÉ and the programme was broadcast, it was quite happy that there were approximately 65 horses per week being killed in this particular abattoir and that was the number of horses that needed to be killed in that abattoir every week for the natural cycle to continue. Now, unfortunately, we have found out that there was a lot of skullduggery going on in that process but there was still the need for 65 horses per week to be humanely, properly and appropriately euthanised in that abattoir. Two weeks have now passed, which equates to 130 horses. The figure will be 195 next week, 260 the following week and so on. If we are back in here again, the buck is going to stop with Mr. Sheahan. There is an urgency.