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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: First, I will ask the Leader later for an update on when the legislation on e-scooters will come back to this House, but this morning I want to focus on neutrality because I will not get an opportunity to speak on tonight's Private Member's motion. I doubt that I am the only person who has found the constant questioning of our neutrality over recent years very worrying. It has escalated...

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I ask that speakers keep to the two and a half minutes of allotted time. The next speaker is Senator Crowe. He is sharing time with Senator Murphy.

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: The Senator will be ganged up on if he takes the time of people who are waiting to come in.

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I am conscious of the need to get everybody in. I believe Senator Flynn wants to get in. I ask everyone to co-operate and to take one and half or two minutes. Is that okay? I told Senator Seery Kearney she had four minutes. Could she try to keep to three?

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I believe Senators Dolan, Doherty and Currie are going to share time.

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Yes. If people are co-operative, I am also going to give one minute to Senator Flynn.

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Yes, the Senator is sharing with Senators Doherty and Currie. Senator Doherty is going first.

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: That is well said. I appreciate everyone's co-operation and the patience of the Minister of State. I call on him to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: That is part of the welfare of the greyhounds. We are here talking about greyhound welfare.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: The committee heard how it is highly invasive and dangerous, even when carried out in a controlled sterile environment. It is also banned in Britain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Has the Minister read the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Okay. It is disappointing if the Minister has not read the report that came out of this committee, because that was one of the recommendations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: My second question relates to the greyhound studbook. I understand the Irish Coursing Club, ICC, runs both the studbook in Ireland and the studbook in Britain. It provides the services for those two studbooks. We repeatedly hear from Greyhound Racing Ireland and the Government that there is a desire for complete transparency and that we have a new traceability system in place. Given that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: We are still on the matter of the studbook. Anybody can look up the British studbook, and the information is completely available to the public. You can see the number of litters that were born. You can see the whelping date, the details of the sire and the dam and the number of dogs and bitches born into that litter. That is publicly available information. Anybody can carry out their own...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: As a member of the public I can go online and I can find out exactly how many pups were born in Britain, the date they were born and the breakdown of the litter in terms of males and females. That is all publicly available information. It allows for the tracking of the numbers of dogs being bred. Would the Minister not agree that the Irish public are entitled to the same amount of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Is the Minister giving a commitment that we are going to have that information, that is, the whelping date, mother, father, breakdown of the litter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Would the Minister support that type of information being made available to the public?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I have a question about the IRGT fund, which provides financial assistance to a number of private greyhound rehoming organisations, as well as doing its own direct rehoming. According to a response to a parliamentary question the Minister gave, this assistance is available to all such organisations upon application. It covers neutering, vaccination, dental costs and things like that. Any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Does the Minister think that somebody should be contacting the Irish Greyhound Owners and Breeders Federation to tell it to remove that statement? We want people to rehome their greyhounds, that is what we all want. We do not want unwanted greyhounds being dealt with in an inappropriate manner. We want them to be rehomed but the owners and breeders have a statement of the website advising...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I have a question regarding the concerns about the 29% increase in greyhound deaths at racetracks in 2021.