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Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Gould: .... Another car was raffled last year. I think Cogans of Carrigaline sponsored that. We have big companies coming in behind good charities. As I raised last week, another example is the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind, which raffled a car. Without fundraising, where will all these good and decent charities that are doing tremendous work get funding? Children's Health Foundation in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2024)

Michael McDowell: I share with the Cathaoirleach a devotion to Marty Whelan and the other great presenters on Lyric FM. On one occasion, he recounted a story about a three-legged dog going into a saloon in America. The bartender said, "What are you doing here? We don't serve dogs". The dog replied, "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw". That always stuck with me. On a serious note, the Joint...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Lynn Boylan: This morning I would like to raise the issue of animal welfare.The European Union is currently looking at regulations that set out to improve the welfare of companion animals, particularly cats and dogs, and this is welcome. I wish to flag my concern at the news coming out of Brussels with regard to the negotiations that the Government is siding with countries that want to reduce the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Apr 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...have bedded down. I see what it has done to the Minister's own neighbourhood and what is happening in mine. I will just make a few observations. One is that, having been a director of Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind for many years, I know there are difficulties in that regard. Second, I have not found Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, my own local authority, of which I was a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...front-line Gardaí, including Public Order Units, the Garda Senior Management Team has agreed on a range of measures, which includes the following: stronger incapacitant spray, expansion of the dog unit, increasing public order training, more tasers for public order policing, and provision of hand-held video cameras for public order units. The table below, which was provided to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Union (30 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...Seeds) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 59/2020 European Communities (Marketing of Vegetable Propagating and Plant Material, other than Seed) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 141/2020 Pet Travel (Cats, dogs and ferrets) Regulations 2020. 160/2020 European Communities (Vegetable Seeds) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020. 172/2020 Sea Fisheries (Shark Fin) regulations 2020 197/2020...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Breeding (30 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Jim O'Callaghan: 773. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if consideration is being given to restricting the type of dog that can be bred in Ireland on the basis that they are excessively dangerous; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18933/24]

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

...guard came out and told me there had been nobody in the office for years and that I had to call Cork because there was nobody there. I have been told another story by Irish Water. It is like a dog chasing his tail.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...refer to my own club, St. Vincent's. I am on the board of management of Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers. They might hold a horse race night. Different organisations would have a horse race night or a dog race night. Does this amendment preclude or stop charities or sporting organisations from running those types of events? I am not clear on this point. We hold nights with ten sponsored races....

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Marian Harkin: ...the north west are paying a very heavy price, both in income lost and, indeed, in the context of their own well-being and mental health, as they grapple to keep going with the poor weather that has dogged the west and the north west since August of last year. It is not just about keeping going; it is about seeing a viable future for their farm with the weather-related challenges alongside...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...member states to discuss it with them and get their viewpoints. This is in anticipation of when it is going to be discussed in the working party at the Council in Brussels. At the moment, the dog and cat legislation is going through. That is what is being discussed. It is unlikely that we will have any progress on this until the very end of the term of the Belgian Presidency or, more...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

John Paul Phelan: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the points-of-entry, that is, ports and airports, at which mobile x-ray scanners and sniffer dogs were deployed to over the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18312/24]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...with people in the last couple of weeks who quite well remember this being the case, and not too far away, where there were notices on boarding houses to the effect that "Irish, Africans and dogs" were not accepted. This kind of thing prevailed then and people got away with it, but because they got away with it at the time does not mean it is right. It certainly is not right. Perhaps...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

...of that stress and, unfortunately, I ended up not getting a medical card. What really annoyed me was that I went through all of this process for six months and I did not fit the criteria. With my dogged nature I got on to the HSE and eventually found out its procedure. I was never going to get a medical card because, ten years ago, we bought a holiday home outside Lahinch, County Clare,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...on getting the mart receipts. It knows the income, therefore, but the problem is that a lot of people do not keep all the receipts, and many people do not realise that if you who have sheep, feeding the dogs is a legitimate cost. Many social welfare people do not realise that, but you cannot have a flock of sheep on a hill or even in a field without a good working dog. You are more...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Domestic Pets (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Healy-Rae: 484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all pets including cats and dogs that have come into the State from abroad have been the subject of the veterinary checks that are required under legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17605/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 716. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 1726 of 9 April 2024, if she will confirm a number of details about a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18048/24]

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)

Eileen Flynn: ...feels like we are driving but we are not reaching the destination where we need to be. We need that destination to be equality of opportunity. Last week, I said my little girl, Billie, wants to be a doctor. That could change because she is only four years old. Lacey wants to be a doctor for dogs, so she wants to be a vet. She is only two. I want my children to have equality of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade (18 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

John Paul Phelan: 154. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of sniffers dogs being used to detect illicit trade and smuggling at ports and airports; the number of dates on which they were deployed and used at individual named ports and airports in the State in 2023 and to date in 2024; and if it is planned to increase the number of sniffers dogs in use at ports and airports. [17173/24]