Results 481-500 of 2,472 for speaker:Réada Cronin
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (18 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: 272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a previous conviction for animal cruelty does not preclude the granting of a licence to anyone in such circumstances who later wishes to handle animals industrially; if such a conviction will now do so in the interest of animal welfare and his Department’s credibility and reputation in its welfare remit; and if he...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (18 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: 273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if slaughterers at a company (details supplied) are fully trained and approved by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26283/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (18 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: 274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role of State or other veterinarians in the operation of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26284/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (18 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: 275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the emergency actions that are being taken in the matter of a company (details supplied), in terms of animal welfare, prosecuting for animal cruelty, withdrawal of licence to operate, micro-chipping and changing of identity, bio-security risk and possible contamination of the food chain; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (18 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: 276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department has no jurisdiction over the holding area of horses to be slaughtered by an abattoir (details supplied); when he intends to acquire same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26286/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (18 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: 277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can guarantee the safety, security, efficiency and effectiveness of the horse passport system given what was exposed on RTÉ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26287/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (18 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: 278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can guarantee that animals unsuitable for consumption have not entered the food chain given the changes to micro-chipping and identities revealed by RTÉ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26288/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (18 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: 279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make it a condition of any future funding that the horse-racing industry become legally responsible for the health and welfare of each and every horse after its racing days, including paying a put-to-sleep fee, instead of selling it on for horrendous conditions of slaughter as exposed by RTÉ, given the vast profits...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (18 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: 280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will place a limit on the number of times a horse can change hands in terms of ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26290/24]
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 27, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: "(iii) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (7): "(8) The Minister shall not seek to prohibit any person from being a member of a representative association on the basis of the post they hold.",".
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 12: In page 27, to delete lines 19 to 38, and in page 28, to delete lines 1 and 2.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: I am listening to the Tánaiste but believe it is important, for the sake of the dignity and respect we can show to members of the Defence Forces, that those members be entitled to representation regardless of the posts they hold. The Tánaiste mentioned the Chief of Staff. I am sure this could be dealt with in the terms and conditions. Does the Tánaiste accept that, in a...
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: In the initial draft of the Bill, the Tánaiste sought to place a prohibition on certain members of the Defence Forces being members of representative associations. We have talked about this. It was as if the Tánaiste was looking to expand the list. His argument for this was that those involved in the disciplinary process within the military need to be able to be impartial. There...
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: It is nothing to do with the amendments.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: I have said it already but I will say it again. I do not like the tone the Tánaiste took. He is acting as if we have not discussed the victims. We have all discussed the victims several times. Sinn Féin has had several meetings with them. This is not in any way to disrespect anybody, certainly not the external oversight group, or the Secretary General - that position is...
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: Why do you want the-----
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: You are arguing against-----
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: You are arguing against having the Secretary General there on it at all.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: If the Tánaiste is upset about what was said in the Seanad and he wants to give them a scolding-----
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: -----maybe he should go into the Seanad and do that, but nobody here has been disrespectful about the external oversight board. We had a really good meeting with them at committee. It was positive. I have every faith in Professor Brian MacCraith and the other members of the-----