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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: We will do so when we reach the amendment.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: We are discussing amendment No. 3
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: When we get to them, I will read the explanatory note. I do not imagine that we will reach them today. Does the Deputy have anything further to say on amendment No. 3?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: I remind the Deputies that amendments are grouped by the Bills Office. All of the amendments, including amendment No. 26 in the name of Deputy Thomas Pringle, can be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: They are not. They are all related. The Deputies can discuss amendment No. 26 during the committee's consideration of amendment No. 3.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: If the Deputies want to make some general points about the knock-on effects of amendment No. 26, as outlined by Deputy Clare Daly, the Minister can respond to their arguments when he speaks about the amendments in this group. Are the Deputies suggesting amendment No. 3 and other amendments will be irrelevant if amendment No. 26 is accepted?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: Do they want the Minister to respond at this stage to their point that amendment No. 3 and other amendments hinge on amendment No. 26?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: I was criticised earlier for asking the Minister to speak first.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: I am under pressure to allow the Minister to speak. I will take it that the official contribution by the-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: No. The reason they are grouped is the exact point the Deputy has made. They are collectively related. One can speak about one or all of them. Deputy Éamn Ó Cuív spoke separately about all the amendments grouped with amendment No. 1 and the Minister responded. I do not want to run down the clock. If a Deputy decides at the end of the discussion to press amendment No. 3,...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: The Deputies are dealing with it and getting a clear response. I do not think the discussion on amendment No. 3 and all related amendments will conclude by 11.15 a.m. We will have to postpone our decision until 22 November.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: A member must be present in order to table his or her amendment.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: That is okay. I ask the Minister to clarify one matter on amendments Nos. 70 and 72. Is there a distinction between a final action and one that is a preliminary initiation of some action? Can somebody say that there is a need for an inspection by a veterinary officer? Is that the purpose of the provision?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: The debate is going around in circles.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: Absolutely.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: Is that not what Deputy Michael McNamara is doing? He is explaining the reason he brought forward-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: No. Procedurally, that may have been my mistake.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: That is fine. If the error was mine, I regret it. The point is that the Minister can respond.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: Does Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív want to clarify a matter?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)
Andrew Doyle: It was the Chairman who called the Minister