Results 461-480 of 2,722 for speaker:Paul Gogarty
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: The Government was very nearly brought down last October. Deputy Tuffy mentioned education - I had a leaflet outside schools in my constituency telling them they could rest assured that if education cuts were not reversed and education protected in the budget, we would not be in Government.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: The INTO, the TUI and the ASTI have all welcomed our achievements. We bartered in the programme for Government for concessions, and we bartered on economic and education issues. We also bartered to a small degree on modest animal rights issues.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: People outside the Green Party might not realise that while this might be important to members of the party we know it is not a big issue and we wonder why it is being turned into such a divisive issue. There are much bigger issues to deal with and much bigger fish to fry, if one pardons the pun. The Labour Party takes donations from trade unions and is beholden to its paymasters just like...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: This one modest piece of legislation, small as it may be, is getting a large number of Deputies cynically motivated and apoplectic. There are far bigger issues that we should be dealing with.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: If this Bill is passed tonight, as I believe it will and rightfully so, we can get on with other issues such as the Civil Partnership Bill, which I believe is far more important to be quite honest.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: After this is passed tonight, the Ward Union Hunt will continue. It will either release the deer earlier and bring it back to captivity without being stressed by a pack of hounds and then have the scent, the horse riding and the industry or it will learn to drag. It will not collapse the industry because it cannot have the hounds baying at the stag. I would bet money on that. If it wants...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: We know that sometimes we fail or do things we do not like but we achieve because we believe in something.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: I am proud to support this amendment and I believe in it wholeheartedly, which is more than I can say for some of the Deputies opposite who do not believe a word they are saying; they are speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: They are not being affected.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: It is not NAMA
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Such as jobs.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Chasing a stag on top of a car.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Europe prioritised it. The Deputy is a good European.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: I congratulate Deputy Tuffy for tabling a reasonable amendment that attempts to deal with the legislation rather than scaremonger, patronise a smaller party in Government or pretend the Green Party is against everything in rural Ireland.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: This is not an argument between rural and urban Ireland. It is a question of whether animals have the right to enjoy a relatively stress-free life. On that question, Deputy Tuffy suggested that a recovery period of three or four days is, somehow, an excuse to allow a domesticated deer to be taken off a cart and chased around the countryside by baying hounds, thereby causing risk to the...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: No, unlike Deputy Hogan's leader, Deputy Kenny. The only Member opposite whose position I respect is Deputy Brian Hayes who, in a recorded comment to the media, confirmed that approaches were made to Sinn Féin by the Fine Gael Party.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Deputy Kenny denied such approaches ever took place. One cannot believe anything that comes out of his mouth because he will be a cute hoor and say anything for the sake of populism. Fine Gael Party Deputies are doing the same with this legislation.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: Deputy Tuffy and a number of Fine Gael Party Deputies stated that Fianna Fáil Party Deputies may have to vote against their beliefs because the programme for Government includes a commitment to introduce this legislation. Green Party Deputies have had to do this on other issues. There are many on the Fine Gael Party benches who are on record as strongly opposing blood sports. Tonight,...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: The truth is that none of the minor Bills promised in the programme for Government is about attacking fishing or hunting.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)
Paul Gogarty: As someone who does not eat meat, this could give vent-----