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- Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: The 2007 general election.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: I propose to share time with the Minister of State, Deputy White, and Deputy O'Donoghue.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: I welcome the Bill. Various amendments have been proposed and, to be frank, I do not care whether the provisions are inserted in this Bill or in the Greyhound Industry Act 1958, so long as they are put through. In the debate on a Private Members' motion last December, Fine Gael's Front Bench spokesman, Deputy Coveney, alluded to the issue of regulation thus: Light-handed regulation and cosy...
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Go easy on them.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Where is Dublin 4?
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: It is all bull, just as the Deputy lied about me being 50% homosexual. It is total bull.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Deputy Sheahan is fishing in the wrong pond.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Corporate donations.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Rezoning rural land.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: I did not even say 25%. The Deputy should get his facts right. It is not that it matters. If I were gay, I would-----
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: I get confused at times. Deputy Sheehan asked when is a heifer a cow, when is a puppy a bitch. There is no absolute comparison. A girl does not have to be pregnant to become a woman. One must have common sense.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: I am drawing a comparison and I am sorry if the Deputies do not like it.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: The Minister has made a genuine effort to take on board the concerns members have raised but for the purposes of this legislation, the definition of a breeding bitch is to cover and ensure there are no loopholes. It does not matter that the greyhound does not give birth until one year later. That is not the reason it is being done.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: I would like to see more amendments debated rather than go into a debate on the rural wedge.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: What about comely maidens?
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: This is nothing to do-----
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Self regulation is no regulation.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: It has been shown many times.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Swimming Pool Projects: Swimming Pool Projects (8 Jul 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Question 427: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if a special case separate to the swimming pool programme could be made for a town (details supplied) in County Dublin with the local authorities advised of same along with the application; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that South Dublin County Council did not apply under the old programme in 2000 due to its...