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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: The Minister of State is missing the point I am making. At the moment, a vet can go into a stud to supervise artificial insemination involving the use of fresh semen but cannot do so when frozen semen is being used. All I am saying-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Why not do it in primary legislation?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Maybe I am not making it clear enough.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: The point I am making is that under the legislation in place at the moment, if a veterinary practitioner goes into a stud, he has no place in observing the use of frozen semen.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: That is not happening in practice at the moment.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I cannot understand why there is such reluctance to broaden the wording.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: No.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: No. I am trying to do the opposite.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: The Minister of State is narrowing it. At the moment, veterinary practitioners have no place to play where frozen semen is being used. They have no place to play. The Minister of State is bringing in a Bill that is copying the legislation that is already in place. I am trying to make it more encompassing so that all mating is governed by legislation. The Minister of State is narrowing...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: He does not understand because if he did, he would broaden the terminology to govern what is happening at the moment. In what percentage of inseminations is frozen semen currently used?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: The Minister of State is ignoring what is done with artificial insemination.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: No. I do not want to go down to the line of complication that the Minister of State has gone down.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: If I have, then the Minister of State is not hearing me. I am not saying anything of the sort.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Perhaps the Minister of State does not know what is happening in the industry at the moment. Use of frozen semen has no veterinary supervision. That is what is happening at the moment. That is what I want to rectify in this Bill. At the moment, artificial insemination has veterinary supervision but the use of frozen semen has none. The Minister of State is putting in a Bill that is...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I want the legislation to provide for veterinary supervision if it is needed in any circumstances in a stud. If a veterinary practitioner walks in, he should have access to what is done as regards all insemination.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Can the Minister of State show me where in the Bill the word "frozen" is mentioned?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Can the Minister of State explain why the use of frozen semen does not have veterinary supervision?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Why not do it?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Why not do it?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2019)

Jackie Cahill: I have to admit that I am not qualified to respond on that, but I cannot see why it is not done in the Bill.