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Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: That is a fact.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: The Minister had to take it out of it afterwards.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: The Minister did not. Not at all.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: What were all the meetings about over the past two week?

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: He has been in a fair few of them in the past two weeks with the Government backbenchers. He may not have had Deputy Mattie McGrath, but he had a couple of others.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: To do what?

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: That is important.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: The Minister is the one who brought it in.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: So the Minister has not spoken to him.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: There is no agreement between the Ministers.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: Did Deputy Mattie McGrath get that one?

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: The amendment tabled by Deputy Ciarán Lynch is similar to amendments Nos. 16 and 17 that I tabled in a different section. I agree with the sentiments expressed by my colleague, Deputy Ciarán Lynch, about the misinformation being given by the Minister, Deputy Gormley, to try to convey the impression that he did not wish to do anything except the honourable thing in respect of animal...

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: -----because he has damaged the stability of the Government. The trust of the Fianna Fáil backbenchers has been damaged to such an extent that nobody trusts the Minister to have the powers-----

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: It is clear that the Minister is not disagreeing with me. In these amendments we seek to have the greyhound industry removed completely from the Bill, which is what, in effect, the Minister has postponed until 1 January 2011 by giving himself an enabling provision to go ahead with his own animal welfare regulations for all dogs, including greyhounds, if he does not reach agreement on the...

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: That is the way it works. The Minister cannot have it every way. Trust is very important. We are taking what the Minister has said on trust, that he will reach agreement with the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on those issues in the autumn. In effect, the Minister is saying to him and to all of the people who have an interest in the matter such as the greyhound industry and...

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: Thanks to the Minister.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, lines 1 and 2, to delete paragraph (b).

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: I acknowledge that the Minister has made efforts in amendments to safeguard the concerns of people in relation to authorised persons. The concern related to the type of people entering premises in an unstructured disorganised manner, without proper notice, perhaps with a hidden agenda. Such people had sufficient powers of access to property without necessarily evincing the type of concern...

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: Perhaps the Ceann Comhairle will list the amendments being discussed together.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Phil Hogan: Amendment No. 6 in my name deals with the same issue in terms of the definition whereby a particular number of bitches constitute a litter and a breeding establishment. The points made by Deputies Ferris and Carey are worthy of consideration. In practical terms, there is an onerous responsibility, including a financial responsibility, on individual greyhound breeders in whose interest it is...