Results 5,441-5,460 of 5,615 for speaker:Andrew Doyle
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: Is the Deputy calling for a section to deal with artificial insemination? Section 26 deals with that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: Section 59 relates to the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011 and provides that only progeny produced in compliance with subsections (2) and (3) of section 11 of that Act, that is, the first to sixth litter or the seventh and eighth litters following certification, are permitted to be registered in the Irish Greyhound Stud Book and makes it an offence for a person to attempt to register other...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: But that is not natural.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: I know that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: There is no demand for -----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: Section 26 in this Bill deals with the artificial insemination of greyhounds. Frozen semen is covered in the same way as natural matings are covered, under veterinary controls. It is deal with in other legislation, as I understand it.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: Is Deputy Cahill concerned about deceased animals?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: We are amending the 1958 Act. That legislation did not mention natural mating or natural service.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: It is not mentioned in the Act.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: Is Deputy Cahill suggesting that there should be veterinary control over natural matings?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: I do not see the need for that. It is a natural process.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: Just to be clear on this, the Deputy made comparisons with the horse industry earlier. To the best of my knowledge with coverings, which are much more common with thoroughbred horses, there is no legal requirement for veterinary supervision of that process.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: Yes, but the Deputy is talking about natural methods.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: I have no idea.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: Frozen semen is artificial insemination.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: Just to clarify, many of us with farms have used artificial insemination for bovines, for example. The semen comes in a frozen canister and is administered in a way with which those of us involved in agriculture are familiar. The use of frozen semen is artificial insemination. There is a distinction-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: The legislation uses the word "semen". Semen has to be partially chilled or frozen for artificial insemination.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: To go back to my original statement, section 26(1) allows the board to make regulations with the consent of the Minister, setting down in secondary legislation the precise type of distinction or restriction. The legislation refers to artificial insemination and Deputy Cahill is saying that there is a difference between that and the use of frozen semen. There may well be, at some stage,...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: It is all artificial insemination.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)
Andrew Doyle: The legislation allows for secondary legislation to specify that, as it stands. It is there-----