Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)

With reference to No. 35 on the Order Paper, "That the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 477 of 2011) be and are hereby annulled.", will the Government give time to discuss this matter and debate it, given the penal sanctions included in these new regulations? One of these sanctions could mean that a turf cutter could receive up to three years in prison and €500,000 in fines and an old person could potentially have a mobile telephone taken off him or her and have the information on it used to prosecute for ringing a turf cutter to keep the house warm. Will time be provided to discuss and debate this and vote on the introduction of these regulations? If the Government is so fond of them and so keen on them, it should put them to a vote.

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