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Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: He facilitated it.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Well said.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: There was no allegation.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: That is not what she suggested.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I would like to raise the issue of animal welfare, and not for the first time, in this Chamber. In the past week there have been two horrific cases of mutilated animals in south Dublin. A decapitated dog was found dumped in an apartment block bin shed and a couple of days later a decapitated cat was found in a green space in Ballyboden.I echo the calls of the DSPCA that anyone who has any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I thank our guests for giving up their time to come before the committee and talk. This is our third session on the issues of microchipping, ear cropping and artificial insemination. I might ask a few questions of the representatives of Dogs Trust Ireland and the ISPCA that follow on from what we have heard from other witnesses. Representatives of Fido, one of the microchip databases, were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Would that sort of single repository address that issue? If it were digitised, when logging that information the single repository would pick up if it was not filled in correctly. For the benefit of the committee, how do the witnesses foresee their proposals addressing these concerns around the different variations of names and addresses, as well as the markings? What I am getting at is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: That leads to my next question about why greyhounds should be incorporated into such a national database or portal. Both the Department and Dogs Trust have flagged that, because these databases are run by commercial bodies, they might not want to share the information but we should still have a single portal that is accessible to those who need access to it. Why would greyhounds be included...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I ask the Chair to indulge me a little longer. On ear cropping, Mr. Dowling says people are not allowed show a dog that has cropped ears. Anyone can go on any social media platform and see plenty of dogs with their ears cropped, particularly bulldogs. Would Mr. Dowling advise that we need a public awareness campaign? As he says, the people who are doing this know exactly what they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I have a quick question on deceased dogs and the importance of the issue of registering them. We heard from the Department last week that almost 600,000 dogs have been microchipped since 2017, but we do not know if there are 600,000 dogs in the country or more or less. How important is it for that to be clarified, and how do the witnesses foresee that happening? I have another question on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010: Dogs Trust Ireland (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I thank Mr. Brennan for addressing the issue of dog breeding. We still hope the Department will come before the committee to discuss the matter. One of the issues for the agriculture committee is that this issue falls under a different Department, so we have requested that the Department of Rural and Community Development, when it is available, come before the committee. That leads me to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010: Dogs Trust Ireland (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: We have loads of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010: Dogs Trust Ireland (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Is Mr. Brennan referring to automated feeding and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010: Dogs Trust Ireland (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: The strengthening of the legislation leads on to my next point. Dogs Trust has been before the committee previously to discuss the online sale and supply of pets and the need for information on that to be correct. If that were lined up as well, someone trying to advertise dogs would be linked back to where the dogs were bred. It is the local authorities that license dog breeding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010: Dogs Trust Ireland (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: One of the suggestions is that the legislation be amended to allow authorised officers, under the Animal Health and Welfare Act, to carry out inspections. Would that help? That would alleviate some of the pressure on local authorities if they are under-resourced. Obviously, we must bear in mind that we would have to resource the authorised officers to carry out inspections. Such a change...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010: Dogs Trust Ireland (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Are breeding bitches euthanised rather than rehomed when they are finished breeding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010: Dogs Trust Ireland (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Mr. Brennan indicated that the guidelines state that the ratio for the number of breeding bitches is 1:25. What is his view on how big puppy farms can be allowed to get? The DSPCA told us that the Irish Kennel Club would say people can make a decent living out of 30 breeding bitches, which still seems a lot. Given that some establishments have 100 breeding bitches, does Dogs Trust have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Review of Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010: Dogs Trust Ireland (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I thank Mr. Brennan.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I will be very brief. I also wish to raise the matter of the IPCC report. I particularly welcome the fact that the panel said that we cannot rely on unproven technologies such as carbon capture. That is very welcome. It is unfortunate that we are seeing the nature-based solutions presented by peatlands not being seized upon to the full extent possible. Bord na Móna's plans to put a...

Seanad: Carbon Budgets: Motion (5 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I am another member of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action who listened intently to all of the discussion around carbon budgets and the climate Act. The Opposition played a very constructive role in improving that Act. One example is the just transition, which was not mentioned once in the original version. While the legislation did not go as far as we wanted, it is...