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Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: Perhaps there is a new definition of due process.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: I hope the Deputy will be more constructive.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: These are very important grants.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: What about the article in the Sunday Independent? It has been leaked all over the place.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: They are entitled to due process.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: Due process has been given a new definition.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: Not according to the leaked report.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: The Minister of State should look around himself.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: It has absolutely nothing to do with the Dalton report.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: That is not the case.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: They did not even refer to the Bill.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: If it was, that was the issue.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: I thank all Members who contributed to the debate on the Bill. As I stated at the outset, it afforded us a three-hour opportunity to discuss the greyhound industry. Unfortunately, the Government side took a negative approach to what I am trying to do. Apart from the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Power, the majority of them were on message, came with prepared scripts and all made similar...

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: I also find that when people are under political pressure, as the Minister was on one occasion at a meeting of Kerry County Council, they like to refer to an incident that happened in Cork for which I do not believe I was at fault. They like to throw that at me at certain times, but I am sure the Acting Chairman will agree that whatever I, as a Kerryman, did on the football field was...

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: ——and it is doing no good for our democracy.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: The Minister said last night——

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: ——that the introduction of this Private Members' Bill can only damage the process of ensuring that all the parties to the Dalton inquiry receive due process. The Government should note that the process has been damaged already with the leaking of the report to a number of our national newspapers and the subsequent publication of the conclusions and recommendations put forward by Mr....

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (13 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: Question 66: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the introduction of resource recovery units as part of the waste management policy of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22542/06]

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (14 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, line 9, after "generally" to insert ", with special emphasis on female participation". Since the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs published its report on women and sport, for which I was rapporteur, very little progress has been made with regard to the participation of women in sport, certainly not to the extent...

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (14 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: The low levels of female participation in sport are such that there must contain positive discrimination in Government policy towards women for a number of years to ensure greater participation. Women and young girls must be encouraged and facilities provided for them. I disagree with the Minister on one issue. In many instances, females have to share dressing rooms with males and some do not...