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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (30 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: If the microchip turns up on a dog, who follows through on enforcement? If I bought a microchip, decided to implant it in a dog, then a vet scanned it, that microchip is not registered to anyone, so surely there is an illegal act if somebody is registering that microchip? Who follows up on it if the microchip shows up anywhere or the dog shows up on the streets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (30 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: There has not been a single enforcement case of the online sale of pet regulations, according to a parliamentary question we tabled last year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (30 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I get that. We have heard that the microchipping legislation in Ireland is better than in other jurisdictions. One can have the best of legislation, but if it is not enforced, then it is not worth the paper it is written on. To give the example of online sales again, many of the animal welfare organisations will state they are dedicating the time of their volunteers to go through online...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (30 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: So I should advise animal welfare organisations to flood the Department's inbox with all of the examples of the illegal advertisements.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (30 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: That is the evidence. One example was a microchip belonging to a horse.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Bord na Móna (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I welcome the Minister of State. I am delighted he is here to answer the question because it relates to the mid-Shannon wilderness park, which I am sure he is familiar with. The issue is Bord na Móna promised that once it had finished removing peat, the bog would be handed back to the community. After spending generations harvesting peat, the local community decided it wanted a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Bord na Móna (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister of State for clarity on when we will see the mid-term review, which was due in quarter 1 of 2022. I am concerned about the reference to the operator, if it intends to sell, charge or carry out any development, being required to provide substitute lands with equivalent benefits because this site is already proving its value. Even if the national peatlands strategy is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (30 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I welcome the witnesses. Ms Muldoon made an important distinction between those who are carrying out the practice of artificial insemination who are not qualified and veterinary practices. She mentioned there were District Court proceedings, two of which were in regard to non-veterinary practices. In February, a parliamentary question was tabled to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Does Senator Mullen want to speak? Has he indicated? No.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I wish to speak against amendments Nos. 2 and 3. On Committee Stage, we heard at length from Senator Mullen about how people wanted to pray outside hospitals and that we needed to respect their right to prayer. I pointed out to the Senator that the women were telling us they found those prayer vigils to be intimidating when they walked past them and that we needed to listen to the women and...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I did not say I did.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: It is Senator Mullen's supporters. He did not come in and defend us. He did not come in and contradict them.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: He facilitated it.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Well said.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: There was no allegation.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: That is not what she suggested.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I thank our guests for giving up their time to come before the committee and talk. This is our third session on the issues of microchipping, ear cropping and artificial insemination. I might ask a few questions of the representatives of Dogs Trust Ireland and the ISPCA that follow on from what we have heard from other witnesses. Representatives of Fido, one of the microchip databases, were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Would that sort of single repository address that issue? If it were digitised, when logging that information the single repository would pick up if it was not filled in correctly. For the benefit of the committee, how do the witnesses foresee their proposals addressing these concerns around the different variations of names and addresses, as well as the markings? What I am getting at is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: That leads to my next question about why greyhounds should be incorporated into such a national database or portal. Both the Department and Dogs Trust have flagged that, because these databases are run by commercial bodies, they might not want to share the information but we should still have a single portal that is accessible to those who need access to it. Why would greyhounds be included...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I ask the Chair to indulge me a little longer. On ear cropping, Mr. Dowling says people are not allowed show a dog that has cropped ears. Anyone can go on any social media platform and see plenty of dogs with their ears cropped, particularly bulldogs. Would Mr. Dowling advise that we need a public awareness campaign? As he says, the people who are doing this know exactly what they are...