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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Domestic Pets (23 Apr 2024)

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 Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (23 Jan 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a proposal (details supplied) to ban electric dog collars; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2398/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...and the Department about the threat posed by the bark beetle. I thank the IFA for being out in front with its concern on behalf of farmers. I thank Mr. Jason Fleming, in particular, for his dogged determination in representing people who are in the forestry sector and want to be in the forestry sector but because of inaction on the part of the Government and the Department are unable to...

Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...County Kerry alone, in a week, there were 1,000 fallen animals? You cannot bury them at home so they were rotting on the top of the ground. I will describe exactly what happened to them. Every dog from miles around and every rat from 100 miles devoured them at night. We are lucky the weather was cold. Did it bother the Minister for the environment, Deputy Ryan? Did he or the Minister...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the greyhound racing industry in County Kerry and the track in Tralee. I wish to speak about the people who own greyhounds. Other Deputies seem to be completely oblivious to this. They adore their dogs - I will stick with greyhounds for a minute. I am talking about people like Tom O'Connor and his family from Saleen in Tarbert, people who grew up with greyhounds. Greyhounds are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...feel confident about their future instead of worried. At present, they are worried and I will tell the Taoiseach why. They are looking at the Green Party tail wagging the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael dog and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael dancing to a tune that is being merrily played by the Green Party. They are looking at decisions the Government has taken. I am very worried about...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (18 Jan 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 1894. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the cane corso and malenois dog breeds will be considered as dangerous breeds that should be muzzled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63317/22]

Retained Firefighters: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...ambulance is called out, the local fire service should also be called out. In many instances, the fire service could arrive to a scene quicker than an ambulance because the Government has made a right dog's dinner out of the ambulance service by centralising it to a disused fire station here in Dublin instead of keeping it in the local areas as was the case and where people had knowledge...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., Food and Marine, told members that the Government would be lucky if it hits 20% of its own planting targets. This is absolutely ironic, as the Green tail is shaking the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael dog to death.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (6 Jul 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...and then disappeared. He did nothing for University Hospital Kerry, UHK, when he came and did nothing for it when he left. Why is it acceptable in Ireland that if a cow, a bullock or a dog has an injury, it can be quite safe to assume that, within two hours, a vet, a qualified person, will be giving care to that animal and providing treatment, and rightly so? Why does it seem...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Breeding (14 Jun 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 2012. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to dog licensing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29475/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the Dáil on wage increases. I would love for people to have larger wages but we have to be mindful of the employers who are trying to pay those wages and find it very difficult to run their businesses. Again, it is a case of the dog chasing the tail. If we could arrest the massive increase in the cost of living, everything might start to stabilise. I am sorry if I have gone on too...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...said we should have. Talk about mixed messages. Last week, there was the debacle of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, going on radio to say that he would be banning the sale of turf from 1 September, the Tánaiste saying the following morning that the ban was being delayed and the Minister going on radio again the next day to say that it...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Signage (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...for places where animals are grazing in public common grounds such as hills, mountains and so on, to advise the public to be mindful of these animals when they are out for walks with their dogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17164/22]

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021: Motion (30 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...other Deputies standing up and talking about cruelty in this sector. Of course, there are people who may not be right at any sector of life, but the vast majority of people who have greyhounds and dogs adore them, and if it is horses, they adore them. Those people live for their animals and care for them and nurture them and want to protect them. They also, of course, want to have sport...

Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (17 Feb 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...a massive difference to the local fishermen using it. On behalf of fishermen in Coornagillagh and every other small pier in Kerry, I ask the Minister to look at that issue. On the issue of dog attacks, I am thankful to Radio Kerry and the farmers in the west of Dingle with whom I dealt recently and whose sheep were attacked by dogs. We want to send a clear message that walkers coming...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dog Licences (3 Feb 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 974. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding dog ownership; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5970/21]

Greyhound Industry: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: I very much resent what has been said so far. Deputies have told mistruths about the respectable people involved in this industry. The image of 6,000 dogs disappearing per year is factually incorrect. Under the IGB system, dogs are registered at 12 weeks of age and are named before they are 12 months old. If a dog gets two trials and races on an Irish track, that dog can then be sold in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...there is anything prejudicial to anyone's health or safety by going out shooting? Perhaps that might be true if a person goes out with somebody else but in most cases, one person goes out with a dog, predominantly shooting land that person has been shooting on for many years. The date of 1 November is a very special day for those people. They do it in a responsible way.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Oct 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...is regulated under the greyhounds Acts from 1958 to 2019, subject to the general control and direction of Greyhound Racing Ireland. Under the Greyhound Racing Act 2019, a greyhound is defined as a dog entered into the Irish greyhound stud book. All greyhounds that race, whether on the track or coursing, are entered into that book. Therefore, the definition of a greyhound includes both...