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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. 25: In page 15, subsection (12), lines 10 to 12, to delete paragraph (c).

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

Maureen O'Sullivan: We are going to call a vote on it.

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. 18: In page 13, line 41 and in page 14, lines 1 to 7, to delete subsection (2).The Minister said he would consider this amendment.

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. 13: In page 13, subsection (1)(a)(i)(II), line 11, after "animal" to insert the following:"including animals prior, during and after an entertainment or sporting event,".We are seeking extra protection on health and welfare to include animals used in-----

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

Maureen O'Sullivan: I would like the Bill to be a bit more specific and include entertainment and sporting events.

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

Maureen O'Sullivan: I would like to hear what the Minister has to say.

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. 14: In page 13, subsection (1)(a), between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: "(iii) treated in a manner that they are not kept in close quarters preventing them from experiencing their natural animal behaviour including the freedom to roam pasture land,".We want to ensure food production mechanisms take into account the quality of life of the animal used.

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. 15: In page 13, subsection (1), between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: "(b) the animal's physiological and behavioural needs shall be taken to include -- (i) its need for a suitable environment, (ii) its need for a suitable diet, (iii) its need to be able to exhibit normal behaviour patterns, (iv) any need it has to be housed with, or apart from, other animals,...

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. 10: In page 11, subsection (1)(b), between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:"(iii) the risk that the animal will damage the surrounding population of indigenuous wild animals or the natural flora and fauna of the surrounding environment.".

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. 11: In page 11, lines 35 and 36, to delete paragraph (a) and substitute the following:“(a) there is a risk or a suspicion that disease is present, or”.

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. 4: In page 9, subsection (1), between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following:" "inspector" means a person being a veterinary practitioner appointed by the Minister or a local authority to be an inspector for the purposes of this Act;".

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

Maureen O'Sullivan: Yes.

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

Maureen O'Sullivan: The amendment was tabled for the reasons the Minister outlined. I know about the damage that feral mink have done to birdlife and fauna.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (27 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to his comment that Ireland cannot act unilaterally to ban illegal Israeli imports, his response to Ireland's obligations to uphold and promote international human rights and humanitarian law; his views on the legal opinion provided by EAPPI (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52378/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (27 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support the introduction of country by country accounting and if he will work towards the inclusion of secrecy jurisdictions in the Council of Europe/OECD Multilateral Convention on Tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52349/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (27 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Finance as per recommendations of the recent OECD/IMF/UN (2011) report, if he will carry out a spill over analysis of tax policy here to ensure that it is not negatively impacting on the revenue take of the developing countries [52350/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cóiríocht Scoile (27 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé mhéid bunscoil agus iarbhunscoil atá i gcóiríocht shealadach agus cén céatadán díobh siúd gur scoileanna lán-Ghaeilge iad; cad iad na scoileanna atá ag fanacht le cóiríocht bhuan agus cé chomh fada is atá na scoileanna sin ag fanacht le cóiríocht bhuan....

A Framework for Junior Cycle: Motion (22 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The next two speakers are Deputies Lyons and Spring. I call Deputy Spring.

A Framework for Junior Cycle: Motion (22 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We are coming to the decade of commemoration and it is vital we continue to give students a sense of their history. How can we know where we want to go unless we have a real understanding of where we have come from? History was taught in an innovative way in most schools with different methodologies. The examination needed to be looked at because there was such a wide divergence between...

A Framework for Junior Cycle: Motion (22 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I have no doubt a great deal of work has gone into producing the framework. When I came to read it I took a little trip down memory lane, having been a teacher in a voluntary secondary school. I taught the old leaving certificate course, the old intermediate certificate course, the new leaving certificate course, the newer leaving certificate course and the current junior certificate...