Results 11,241-11,260 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Deputy Mattie McGrath, who has just arrived in the Chamber, is needed.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Answer the question.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister should not stonewall.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: I did not say that.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: No.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: You did.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: That is a fact.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister had to take it out of it afterwards.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister did not. Not at all.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: What were all the meetings about over the past two week?
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: He has been in a fair few of them in the past two weeks with the Government backbenchers. He may not have had Deputy Mattie McGrath, but he had a couple of others.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: To do what?
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: That is important.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The Minister is the one who brought it in.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: So the Minister has not spoken to him.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: There is no agreement between the Ministers.
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: Did Deputy Mattie McGrath get that one?
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: The amendment tabled by Deputy Ciarán Lynch is similar to amendments Nos. 16 and 17 that I tabled in a different section. I agree with the sentiments expressed by my colleague, Deputy Ciarán Lynch, about the misinformation being given by the Minister, Deputy Gormley, to try to convey the impression that he did not wish to do anything except the honourable thing in respect of animal...
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: -----because he has damaged the stability of the Government. The trust of the Fianna Fáil backbenchers has been damaged to such an extent that nobody trusts the Minister to have the powers-----
- Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)
Phil Hogan: It is clear that the Minister is not disagreeing with me. In these amendments we seek to have the greyhound industry removed completely from the Bill, which is what, in effect, the Minister has postponed until 1 January 2011 by giving himself an enabling provision to go ahead with his own animal welfare regulations for all dogs, including greyhounds, if he does not reach agreement on the...