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Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)

Ray Butler: ..., have a passport and receive injections for rabies and various illnesses before export. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine also has to give a passport which is permission for the dog to be exported. I agree that nobody wants to see any greyhound go to China or Macau. In all the years I have been in the greyhound industry, I have seen very few greyhounds sent to Macau...

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)

Ray Butler: We have come a long way in the past three or four years with the microchipping of dogs and passports. We must be very careful, however, not to impose additional expenses on breeders of greyhounds. A little microchip that goes into a dog’s back costs 50 cent or €1 at most. When one goes to the control steward and asks him to microchip a dog, it might cost €25.If there...

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)

Ray Butler: To come back in on what Senator Ruane said about passports, it is not really the same as a passport for a human being. It includes information on ear markings, the colour of the dog and so on. When a vet gives a dog injections, including for rabies, that is written in the passport which is passed on, but it is the microchip that really holds the secret to it all.

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)

Ray Butler: ...the board in 2014. I see greyhounds in England every day of the week. I saw a 2017 Pacific Mile pup run the other night and win in Nottingham but he has been dead since the mid-1990s. Top Honcho dogs run every so often and he is also dead since the 1990s.

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)

Ray Butler: Senator Norris would last forever. There are minuses and pluses with these centres but the plus side is that much of the frozen semen coming in has made it cheaper in certain cases to get dogs of the likes of Top Honcho and Australian dogs such Frightful Flash. In certain centres the frozen semen was a quarter of the price when the stud dog was alive. It has made it cheaper for the...

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2018)

Ray Butler: We all have no problem with dogs in other jurisdictions being banned from racing if they have been found to have drugs in their system. A dog would not be allowed to run in Manchester one week and run the following week in Ireland because the dog would have to undertake a clearance trial. A dog, bar it was an open class dog, would be banned automatically. Dogs are banned for other reasons....

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Ray Butler: ...or run by big bookmakers. I am not talking about the small man who comes in with a satchel but rather the big multinational companies that come in and throw out their rules and regulations about how many times a dog can run or what kind of greyhounds are running on the tracks. Lower-grade greyhounds are being kept to run these BAGS meetings and, in certain cases when one tries to look at...

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Ray Butler: ...produced a litter of pups, the owner received IR£300 when the pups were on the ground. We must implement something like that for the industry to get breeding going again because there is a shortage of dogs.I thank the Minister for coming here today. I welcome the Bill and I will contribute further on it when it returns to the House.

Seanad: Developments in Organic Sector and Greyhound Industry: Statements (22 Feb 2017)

Ray Butler: .... This strike will go on but we have to sit around a table to see what is best for the greyhound industry.We do have to look at prize money. I know that the ordinary person who has the grading dog from A5 down is not too unhappy about €300 first prize money or a little bit more. It is the bigger stakes where we need the better dogs to come into competition where we need the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)

Ray Butler: ...strategy is one of the recommendations of the report. We should look at what they do in Australia where greyhound racing is doing very well. We see the significant prize money. I acknowledge that they are eight dog races. However with the introduction of their digital system, one can watch a greyhound race in every pub, club or on the telephone. We have to examine that option if we...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ray Butler: Who are the dogs?

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ray Butler: "Call off the dogs" is what she said. My brother's son is a guard. Is he a dog?

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ray Butler: Who are the dogs?

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ray Butler: She called gardaí "dogs".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Ray Butler: ...funding because the industry is both a significant employer and revenue stream for the Government. In some areas greyhound racing is like the GAA club because local people have their coursing dogs and greyhounds. Mr. Meaney and Ms Larkin have taken over a legacy of bad management left by the previous chief executive officer and other people who were involved in the board. It is very...

Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)

Ray Butler: ...available to enforcement authorities to prevent, reduce and abate noise nuisance through on-the-spot fines? We all encountered this major issue when canvassing in estates recently. Three or four dogs could be kept in houses with no gardens or facilities. We must introduce laws, as this is an issue of cruelty. I am sure many Deputies would agree.