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- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: I am delighted to hear that the Minister is now engaging with the stakeholders. He found it difficult to do so for a while-----
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: I know he has had various meetings in recent times but he certainly caused a lot of angst to his Government backbenchers by his lack of interest in all sorts of dialogue until the gun was put to his head, effectively, in the last week or two. All of us are interested in the animal welfare issues. We are asking the House to agree in this section, without any reference to the details of what...
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: We are not confused.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: We cannot believe what is happening.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister should deal with legislation, not make smartarse comments.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister could not bring Fianna Fáil with him until today.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister should answer the question.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister should answer the question he was asked.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: We will not.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: We do not trust the Minister.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Is the Minister looking for martyrdom?
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Deputy Doyle has sought the implementation of appropriate legislation on animal welfare to ban puppy farms and the type of activities associated with them.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister sought to introduce legislation through the backdoor system to give him powers on all sorts of other issues, including greyhounds, hunt clubs and beagles. This is extraneous material that no one called for except the Minister. They were properly regulated by the self-regulation system.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister should answer the question he was asked. What deal has he done with the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on animal welfare that allows the Minister to remove from this legislation any reference to a commencement order on 1 January 2011 on animal welfare under this legislation?
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Deputy Mattie McGrath, who has just arrived in the Chamber, is needed.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Answer the question.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister should not stonewall.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: I did not say that.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: No.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: You did.