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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: Ban this substance then.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is ignoring the WHO.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: This is not safe.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: I am bringing the results to the Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is prepared to ignore the WHO.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Bord na gCon National Greyhound Testing Laboratory in County Limerick has accreditation for testing for Stanozolol; if he will provide an up-to-date certificate of accreditation for Bord na gCon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26374/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: In response to a parliamentary question in May the Minister outlined that Bord na gCon had never identified any greyhound with a positive Stanozolol test result, implying that we did not have a problem with the drug in Ireland. The truth is very different. The most up-to-date accreditation certificate for the National Greyhound Laboratory available on the Bord na gCon website does not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: Am I understand that they have the capacity to test for Stanozolol? If they have, can the Minister of State explain to me why Irish dogs that have gone to Britain have tested positive for Stanozolol when they never test positive in Ireland? I do not understand that and neither do many people in the industry. We all know there have been problems in the greyhound industry for a while....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: It is not my fault. The Minister and Deputy "quare fellow" there went on so long.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: No, I blame the other Deputy more.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: Will the results of the review to which the Minister of State referred be made public? On Stanozolol, the winner of the William Hill Derby in the UK, an Irish dog, was disqualified for testing positive for Stanozolol only recently. A breeder in Wexford was on to me last week. He told me that he could only get €900 now for a dog for which he would have got €3,500 ten years ago...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State and I are talking to different people.

European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: When the euro project was being formed, the German Minister for Finance at the time, Oskar Lafontaine, spoke of the "vision of a united Europe, to be reached through the gradual convergence of living standards, [and] a deepening of democracy..." In The Guardian last week Aditya Chakrabortty wrote in the same context: "Instead of raising living standards across Europe, monetary union is...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Government has made it very clear that the neoliberal imperative to maximise economic competitiveness guides all its policies, no matter what the cost to the people. Even any discussion of the minimum wage must be subordinate to meeting the needs of international market ideology, rather than the needs of the low paid in Ireland, as was established here last week. This morning, the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 13. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of commonage farmers in County Wexford who have applied for inclusion in the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme; if he is satisfied with the uptake to this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26108/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Administration (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 19. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied with the performance of the members of Bord na gCon and of its chairperson since March 2011; his views that the skills gap identified in the 2014 Indecon report has been addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26106/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Plant Protection Products (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 26. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the obligation on farmers to attend pesticide spraying courses, if he is satisfied with the regulations on the use of pesticides and their effect on the food chain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26107/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Inspections (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 31. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 75 of 27 May 2015 and 29 of 14 May 2015, the number of over 140 monetary fines handed out for the use of banned substances in greyhound racing that have been paid to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26105/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 44. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 467 of 9 June 2015, the reason for the planned closure of Harold's Cross greyhound stadium, particularly in view of reports that it is considerably more profitable than other stadia here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26104/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (1 Jul 2015)

Mick Wallace: 112. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied with the outcome of the recent public consultation on the discussion document on the potential for greenhouse gas mitigation within the agriculture and forestry sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26375/15]