Results 421-440 of 2,466 for speaker:Réada Cronin

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?

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

Réada Cronin: -----for the licence.

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

Réada Cronin: Could the Department publish its account as to how that licence was granted within the three-year period? I asked the Minister whether there was a register of animal abusers so that people who did have convictions would never be licensed to handle animals again, particularly in a slaughterhouse, and I got a straight "No". I disagree with him. He said that the media reported on animal...

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

Réada Cronin: Does Mr. Sheahan believe it is something the Department should examine?

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

Réada Cronin: I have just one more question. There were horses on the grounds on Friday.

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

Réada Cronin: Am I right in believing they were moved on Saturday morning-----

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

Réada Cronin: -----even though the licence was revoked on Friday and the abattoir was told to cease operating? Those horses are still in the care of the owner of Shannonside Foods. Should they be seized on animal welfare grounds?