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Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Maurice Cummins: .... Some instances in this regard have been brought to my attention, where some remote operators took a bet from a person, but stopped paying him winnings because there was a gamble on a particular horse or dog. They refused to pay him and had him investigated by the authorities in England. This man was cleared of any offence but his name had been dragged through the mud and his payments...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Maurice Cummins: .... One must be over 18 years of age to buy a lottery ticket and to go into a bookmakers shop yet we have a State-sponsored tote where children, making their first holy communion, are brought to the dog track where they queue up to bet. I have seen that happen and people who are addicted to gambling have told me they are addicted because of their early introduction to gambling, especially...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (9 Apr 2014)

Maurice Cummins: ...when these Bills are being dealt with we can have a comprehensive debate on the issue of third level education and its future. Senator Landy spoke about the greyhound industry and the doping of six dogs in a recent national coursing event. We had a debate on the greyhound industry in recent weeks. However, I will bring the Senator's point that the issue of coursing be included in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2013)

Maurice Cummins: ...children under the age of 18 cannot buy a national lottery ticket or go into a bookie shop and so on and yet children making their first Holy Communion children can queue up at race meetings and dog meetings, in particular. To date, no Government has taken on the vested interests in that regard. I believe that is disgraceful. People would say I am a killjoy.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (3 May 2012)

Maurice Cummins: ...comprehensive legislation demonstrates the Government's commitment to proper animal health and welfare practices. The Government has already introduced legislation governing greyhound welfare and dog breeding establishments. As the Bill before us strikes a balance in the proper treatment of animals, most right thinking people will welcome its provisions. It is important that animal...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2011)

Maurice Cummins: ...paid from the bank's own resources owing to the sale of assets. The Senator also called for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to sign the commencement order for the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010. I will certainly take up that matter with the Minister; I cannot see why the Act has not been put into law. I was one of the first Members to raise the...

Seanad: Welfare of Greyhounds Bill 2011: Second Stage (25 Oct 2011)

Maurice Cummins: ...process in which he engaged before introducing this Bill. It is a far cry from the former Minister who introduced legislation in this House while completely unaware of other Acts that dealt with dog breeding. I also compliment Members on their informed debate on this subject. On a separate issue, children under 18 cannot buy a lottery ticket or enter a bookies but they still can place...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Maurice Cummins: ...grass for Fianna Fáil. They have cut the grass and are waiting out in the open. It sickens me to see Independents and backbenchers on the plinth and on radio claiming credit for changes in the dog breeding Bill. On Report Stage in this House, the Minister read out the amendments he would introduce to the Bill in the Lower House.

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2010)

Maurice Cummins: ...of the 1958 legislation in the context of the proposed Bill. This is a clear and efficient path to a workable solution to the present concerns of the Irish Greyhound Board as regards the current dog breeding Bill. The proposed amendments by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government simply do not address the genuine fears of the greyhound industry. The measures that...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2010)

Maurice Cummins: ...They are the words of the chief executive of the Irish Greyhound Board and I suggest he knows more about the industry than the Minister, even with the vast amount of knowledge he may possess about dogs. I compliment my friend and colleague, Senator O'Donovan, on outlining the difficulties he faces. They are as I outlined in addressing the first amendment. We are being used as a rubber...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2010)

Maurice Cummins: ...old before they start breeding. To refer in the Bill to breeding bitches of four months old is absolutely ludicrous. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the breeding of any breeds of dogs, but particularly greyhounds. We propose that the four months be changed to two years. If Senator Ó Brolcháin, who is sniggering over there, is suggesting that one can breed greyhound...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator is talking about cruelty to animals if he is talking about breeding bitches at four months. Nobody in the country who is breeding dogs would breed a dog at four months of age.

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2010)

Maurice Cummins: This is absolutely crazy. It shows a disregard for and a complete lack of knowledge about the breeding of dogs. As we said on Committee Stage, to suggest that a person would breed a dog at four months and that they be included under this Bill, really sums up what the Green Party knows about any animal and certainly about the breeding cycle of greyhounds, in particular.

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2010)

Maurice Cummins: ...aware, planning permission can take a good deal more than three months. We are not being unreasonable in any way to call for this to be extended to a period of 12 months. Many family farms breed dogs and perhaps the buildings and outhouses are not what they should be. Such buildings would have to be brought up to standard and it is possible planning permission would have to be secured...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2010)

Maurice Cummins: ...requirements to be complied with under this Bill. What is proposed is ludicrous and it is proposed by a Minister who is unaware of the rural way of life and certainly unaware about the breeding of dogs in this country, be they greyhounds, hunting dogs or any other dog. I have been told that Fianna Fáil has a bundle of amendments to put forward but that they will be proposed in the other...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2010)

Maurice Cummins: ...situation, it is regrettable that we will not have any input from the major party in Government. It appears they are being dictated to by their Green Party colleagues in this regard. They are lap-dogs, rather than greyhounds. The Bill is being led by so-called animal rights figures. We have heard that to get support for the NAMA legislation, people were brought on side by offering them...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Section 14(2) reads, "The operator of a dog breeding establishment shall keep such records as may be prescribed at the dog breeding establishment and shall make them available for inspection by an authorised person or the local authority". What is meant by an "authorised person"? Who will this be? Is it a vet, a dog warden or anyone involved, or supposedly so, in animal welfare? Could it...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2010)

Maurice Cummins: I move amendment No. 13: In page 15, lines 20 to 21, to delete subsection (1) and substitute the following: "(1) The Minister may make Regulations under this Act to ensure the identification of each dog kept at a dog breeding establishment.".

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2010)

Maurice Cummins: I am afraid the tail will not wag the dog on this side of the House. We cannot support the amendment.

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2010)

Maurice Cummins: ...animal welfare but the lack of knowledge of the greyhound industry shown in the content of the Bill is appalling. There is no point in going into the area of micro-chipping and ear-marking of dogs. It has been dealt with, and what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. The Minister quoted the working group to us in reply to a previous amendment but we have given another...