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Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: There should be an onus on the pound to say, "Do you have a chip number?"

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: If you have a chip number, there should be a database between all pounds to say that a dog with a particular chip number has been reported lost, stolen or missing in, for example, the Longford area. That database covers Cavan, Leitrim, Monaghan and all the way to Dublin, so that if a dog comes in and they log the chip number, all of a sudden it is on their database. It is simple.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: It is law now that every dog, before sale, must be microchipped.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: I understand what Ms Fitzpatrick is saying regarding mutilation and one thing or another. It was just an added string to the bow, as I say. Education is very important. Anybody who is doing their job right, we will say, is a registered breeder, would have got vaccinations from the vets and brought them in. On vaccination, they will have got chips and everything else. Any animal for...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: It is also about informing the public. You go to these fairs and markets, and you see this cute puppy in a handbag and hear a story about how the poor woman died and that’s how they got him, and they want to find him a good home. He is only €500 when he should be €2,000. You should know that if it sounds wrong, it is wrong.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: This is going on the whole time. As Ms O'Connor said, you will unfortunately see an increase in the next two weeks coming up to Ballinasloe. I attend Ballinasloe every year. You always see the trading of puppies out of the back of vans and in cages. In fairness to the ISPCA, it has always been on hand in Ballinasloe. I have seen them on numerous occasions lifting dogs off so-called...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: There are numerous ads on DoneDeal.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: They come up in different apps under cattle.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: If you are purchasing a dog, you need to purchase it through a veterinary place where they can read them and chip them, and make sure.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: Yes.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Paraic Brady: I congratulate all our sporting icons who took part in the World Athletics Championships. As we saw on our televisions in recent days, we have some array of talent coming on in the future. It would be remiss of me not to mention our Longford man, Cian McPhillips, who was very unlucky not to win a medal on Saturday. He is only 23 years old. He was 0.2 seconds off the bronze medal place and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I raise an issue of daylight robbery, simply, and I will use that phrase. We have seen the meat processors again this week reducing the price of lamb by another 20 cent per kilogramme. Everybody knows what happened in the beef sector over the past number of years, where the same processors have brought the decline of cattle into a state where now we see almost 3,700 fewer cattle killed this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I want to get back in. Regarding the 26,000 ha of fallen trees on the ground, if we got a scheme or compensation package to go back and plant that, we would meet our targets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Regarding farmers competing with forestry companies for land, will the Minister of State comment on that? Food production is a must. If marginal land comes up for sale in north Longford or Leitrim, as Deputy Kenny said, it has a value to companies for meeting their emissions but they are competing with a farmer who is producing food. I would like the Minister of State's comment on that, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: That is a different problem now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Should the State compete with a farmer who has productive land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: Will there be a scheme for small-scale planting for farmers? If I want to plant, say, four or five acres will that scheme be there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I congratulate the Minister of State on the start he has made. With the recent storm, we have seen one of the greatest disasters that has ever hit the State. It has left two and a half years of timber on the ground. The Minister of State has got off to a very good start in dealing with people and meeting them on the ground, face to face. Regarding the planting of new forests, I put a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farm Safety: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I am a farmer and attended a scene where a young lad lost his life in my area. I was the second person to be there. It could have been avoided, the same as everything else, all these other accidents. There were two in our local area. It is true what they say. It not only has a devastating effect on people's lives but also on communities. To this day, that farm is never going to be the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farm Safety: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paraic Brady: I would like FBD to comment on that, please.