Results 421-440 of 2,472 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 331. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his attention was first drawn to issues with microchips in the horse slaughter industry in the State; the immediate and continued actions he took on foot of that information to resolve the situation, to prevent a recurrence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27834/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 328. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the frequency with which operators' licences are examined or assessed in the lifetime of their duration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27831/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 329. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of licences issued to persons (details supplied) in the matter of equine handling and-or slaughter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27832/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 330. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department did not revoke and-or temporarily halt the operating licence of a facility (details supplied); when his Department was made aware of microchip issues at the plant, indicating a possible risk to the food chain and Ireland’s reputation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27833/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 332. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the direct steps his Department took to address the practices at a facility (details supplied) which was reportedly alerted by an inspector on 13 March 2018; the reason his Department continued to authorise the operation of the plant given the alert's significance for food safety and Ireland’s reputation; the security,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to publish all contacts and reports his Department had or has with the FSAI regarding horse slaughter and the equine food industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27836/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 334. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether any official or agent of his Department has been redeployed within his Department or stood down or not re-contracted or had their duties altered in any way with regard to a facility (details supplied) and-or broader issues within the equine and equine-food industry; if so, the number; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department can have confidence in the standards and practices of the equine slaughter industry given a horse supposedly slaughtered in 2017 was found to be alive in 2018, according to media reports; if he will publish the reports and actions taken individually by his Department and in association with the FSAI on this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 336. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is confident bute has not entered the food chain given the microchipping situation reported in a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27839/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 337. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses slaughtered at a facility (details supplied) following the revelations of alert referred to by a newspaper article as occurring in 2018; the number that were from the racing or show jumping sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27840/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 338. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the age of the youngest and oldest horse slaughtered at a facility (details supplied); the average age of the horses slaughtered since operations began, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27841/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (2 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 339. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has contacted or liaised with the Ministers for Health and Justice in relation to a facility (details supplied) and-or the equine slaughter industry in Ireland; if so, the nature of that contact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27842/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: What is the Government doing?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: I have been raising the issue of mould in public council housing for a while. I have brought it up in Questions on Policy and Legislation and Topical Issues. It has been indicated to me the Government will look at it. I have a young mother in north Kildare who has to bring her new baby home to a house where she and her first child have already developed respiratory conditions due to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: Shannonside Foods in Straffan is in my constituency of North Kildare. I have tabled a lot of parliamentary questions to the Minister about animal welfare and cruelty. The replies I have received from the Department are within the letter of the answer rather than the spirit of the question. I noticed that the Department moved at lightning speed away from animal cruelty and towards...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: Mr. Sheahan does know that as a Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine vet, he does not need a court order to check any of the other buildings such as the shed and the pre-slaughter house. He is aware of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: Regarding licensing, in response to some of my parliamentary questions, the Minister outlined that to have a licence, an applicant must sign a declaration saying that he or she did not have an animal cruelty conviction for at least three years. I raised this as a Topical Issue last Thursday and asked the Department to provide me with the date of the licence because Mr. J. J. Fitzpatrick had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: The owner of the establishment had a conviction on 13 September 2012. It was not just an ordinary conviction for animal cruelty. He had not been kicking a dog. It was a conviction for cruelty to horses. In a separate response, the Minister told me last night that Shannonside Foods was given a conditional certificate to slaughter in July 2015, which is within the three-year period. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: Does he think that is a credible person?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: I have a good few questions so could Mr. Sheahan could explain it as quickly as possible?