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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We realise the extra pressure that is put on animal welfare groups which take in abandoned horses and donkeys.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am thinking about farming friends whose children bought animals at the mart at quite a young age and looked after them until it was time to sell them, and also about young teenagers in urban areas. Smithfield horse fair is in my constituency. I have seen young teenagers from housing estates totally devoted to the animals they purchased but I have also seen the other side of the equation,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I accept what the Minister is saying and can accept the practicality and common sense of his argument, in that his officials cannot be authorities on animal welfare regulations in the 167 countries to which we export. However, there have been glaring examples in which animals were exported to countries with extremely unhealthy practices when it comes to animal welfare. I know the Minister...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: No.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 39: In page 22, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following subsections:"(2) The Minister will draft guidelines outlining acceptable animal health and welfare standards in countries receiving Irish animal exports and which will determine the standard of living to be experienced by that animal in the receiving country. (3) The animal is not exported to countries that...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 38: In page 22, subsection (1)(c), between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "(iii) the substandard animal health and welfare conditions of the destination country of Irish animal exports,".There have been instances where animals were exported to countries where the animal health and welfare standards are way below those which obtain in Ireland. The amendment is...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We discussed the issue of feral cats briefly. I refer to the cost-effective way of dealing with them which is the system of trap-neuter-return. Constituents have told me of instances where domestic cats have been damaged by poisoning. I do not agree with the poisoning of feral cats. Will feral cats be included in this provision? Poisoning is not a way to deal with feral cats.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: May I ask a question?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I would not like to see animal welfare groups being precluded from investigating reports of animal cruelty. Can the Minister assure me that this will not happen?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Based on what the Minister said about amendment No. 30, there is a case to be made with regard to the situation where terrier dogs are being trained in the digging out of foxes. There is documentary evidence that both the dog and the fox suffer appalling cruelty. The dog, in that case, is being trained to dig out the fox. I ask the Minister to examine that further.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 26: In page 17, subsection (1), between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:"(a ) hare coursing and track racing, the netting of hares, the shooting of hares and the use of hares in the training of greyhounds before, during and after sporting events, (b ) the use of animals in sporting events which may result in the mutilation and/or mental and physical suffering of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of teachers, scheduled classes, work training programmes that have been curtailed and or cancelled in each prison and the comparable numbers for six and 12 months ago; the impact of the reduction in prison officers and prison office hours on the availability of services for prisoners including education, psychology, work training, health...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the withdrawal of Health Service Executive funding to a preschool (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54729/12]

Funding of Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: As the Independent speaker at the Constitutional Convention last Saturday one of the points I made was that when the eight topics have been dealt with that there is a need to examine human rights. I specifically mentioned people with disabilities, both mental and physical. I also made a point about the rights of prisoners because their mental health has been very much neglected. This has...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (4 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he as a member of the World Bank, will raise key concerns to ensure procurement procedures will benefit developing countries with significant positive outcomes for local businesses. [53856/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: World Bank Policy (4 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will support a strong revised safeguards policy at the World Bank that will meet international standards and practices in human rights, particularly for high risk projects with displacement consequences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53857/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (4 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the implications that the lack of special educational needs resources are having on a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1; the reason there was a change in policy resulting in excluding the special school under the DES from SEN resource supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53754/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the potential negative effects the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 will have on the costs of medicines for those suffering from epilepsy; if protection measures will be put in place in the Bill either at Committee Stage or Fourth/Fifth Stage in order that sufferers from epilepsy will not be adversely...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (28 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Assets Management Agency debtors in receipt of retainers from NAMA also have pension entitlements either within the retainer or in addition to the retainer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53290/12]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 21: In page 14, subsection (8), line 38, after "been" to insert "or will be".