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- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 7: In page 4, line 20, after "pound" to insert "or hunt club". This amendment has to deal with the exemptions for hunt clubs. I know the Minister has an amendment later that reflects the same sentiment.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: I am disappointed by the Minister's response. I was led to believe he was going to treat hunt clubs in which pups are bred for replenishing packs but not for sale differently from breeding establishments. Accordingly, hunt clubs would be treated in the same way as the greyhound industry in this legislation. I accept the Minister's amendment No. 41 goes some distance in allaying the fears...
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister is misinterpreting Deputy O'Donoghue.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: He is here now.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Good man.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: We have already made the arguments in regard to this amendment, so I will not press it.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: I support Deputy Ferris's comments. Members may not be aware of the severity of the fines that will be imposed on people arising from offences under this legislation. For example, subsection (12) of section 8 states: "The operator of a dog breeding establishment registered under this section shall display the registration certificate issued to him or her in respect thereof in a prominent...
- Waste Management (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Question 1: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Heritage and Local Government the reasons for delay in processing a foreshore licence application Poolbeg waste to energy facility, Dublin; date on which his Department received application; if he is currently judging and will make statement matter. [30802/10]
- Waste Management (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: What is the average time for dealing with a foreshore licence application in the Department, given this application was lodged originally with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 2008? The Minister mentioned recently in an RTE interview that he had a quasi judicial role in the foreshore licence application and stated, "The Poolbeg plant is entirely incompatible with my...
- Waste Management (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: I will be very brief. It will not take long to respond. First, Fine Gael is opposed to incineration and always has been. The question is about the Minister's centralised role as Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and how he has accepted a quasi-judicial function with regard to his responsibilities. He sees nothing wrong in his role as Minister in adjudicating in a...
- Waste Management (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Nobody believes the Minister.
- Waste Management (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: When? Show them to me.
- Waste Management (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: That is not policy.
- Waste Management (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Can the Minister not turn it down?
- Waste Management (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: That has nothing to do with the foreshore licences.
- Waste Management (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister is not stepping aside.
- Waste Management (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: He will breach the ministerial handbook on the code of conduct.
- Dublin Docklands Development Authority (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Question 3: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Heritage and Local Government the progress made in having Comptroller and Auditor General investigate past decisions actions of executive board Dublin Docklands Development Authority; if he will make a statement on matter. [30803/10]
- Dublin Docklands Development Authority (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: I thank the Minister for his reply. I am surprised the Minister for Finance has taken so long, in view of the fact it was a Government decision about six weeks ago to make the order to allow the Comptroller and Auditor General to investigate these matters. What additional powers does the Comptroller and Auditor General require to fully investigate all of the decisions that were made having...
- Dublin Docklands Development Authority (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: I welcome the fact that the Minister changed his mind about bringing in the Comptroller and Auditor General to investigate these matters.