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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (17 Jul 2025) See 3 other results from this debate

Niall Collins: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for raising this matter with respect to dog breeding establishments and the number of exports internationally. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has asked me to take this matter on his behalf. The Dog Breeding Establishments Act provides a regulatory framework for the licensing, monitoring and inspection of dog breeding establishments by local...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (17 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: ...in Kildare. Deputy Emer Currie - To discuss the inclusion of commercial bus operators in the planned expansion of free travel to children under the age of nine. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To discuss the dog breeding national register and compliance with standards. Deputy Tom Brabazon - To discuss the long-term sustainability of the fishing industry. Deputy Paul McAuliffe - To discuss...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Register of Electors (17 Jul 2025)

Mike Kennelly: ...man pleaded guilty but avoided a conviction for electoral fraud after he used a polling card not in his name that went missing from a vehicle. It was even more extraordinary to learn, as every dog and divil in Kerry knows, that the defendant works for the Healy-Rae Plant Hire company. He was cited in court as a farmer and a contractor, but his employer, the Healy-Rae firm, was unusually...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (17 Jul 2025)

Mark Daly: ...the Order of Business, I welcome the Belgian ambassador to Ireland, Karen Van Vlierberge, who is leaving us shortly. She is going back to Europe. She tells me that she is bringing an Irish dog and an Irish cat with her, so she will be taking a small part of Ireland. She is joined by Deputy Catherine Callaghan, who has been appointed as the convener of the Ireland-Belgium Parliamentary...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: ...All I hear the Minister do is give out about local authorities. The buck stops with him. If he truly wants to solve the housing crisis, there are much better ways to do it than what he is doing here today. The dogs in the street know that he is doing this to placate and encourage investment in these properties. He is looking to get in outside money. We have some of the highest rents...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (16 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: ...for residential properties. Deputy Emer Currie - To discuss the inclusion of commercial bus operators in the planned expansion of free travel to children under 9. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To discuss the dog breeding national register and compliance with standards. Deputies Barry Heneghan, Naoise Ó Muirí, Cian O'Callaghan - To discuss the lack of community infrastructure...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025) See 2 other results from this debate

Fiona O'Loughlin: I will raise the fact, with increased funding from the Department of agriculture, that Kildare County Council will be able to hire a new dog warden, which means we will have three in the county to improve dog control issues. That is important in enforcing legislation on the control of dogs and dog breeding establishments, responding to complaints about uncontrolled dogs and, where necessary,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Heydon: ...to inform the risks posed to poultry and captive birds. My Department's advice is that people should not pick up or touch sick, dead or dying wild birds and should keep their pets away from them. Dogs should be kept on a lead in areas where sick or dead wild birds are present. Poultry keepers, whether they have large poultry farms or small backyard flocks, are advised to practice strict...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Health and Safety (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Heydon: ...act swiftly to mitigate the risk of an incursion. My Department's advice is that people should not pick up or touch sick, dead or dying wild birds and should keep their pets away from them. Dogs should be kept on a lead in areas where sick or dead wild birds are present. Poultry keepers, whether they have large poultry farms or small backyard flocks, are advised to practice strict...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Assisted Animal Reproduction (15 Jul 2025) See 2 other results from this debate

Dessie Ellis: ...people are not aware of this practice. I was not even aware of it for a long time myself. When you explain this to people, they cannot understand how such a practice could take place or how any dog, greyhound or otherwise, could have their uterus taken out, injected and then put back in again. It just does not add up. It is totally and utterly barbaric. The Minister of State said...

Seanad: Transport Policy: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Alison Comyn: ...to extend to the town. I speak once again, as I did in my first weeks as a Senator in February, about something very real and urgent to the people of Drogheda. Anybody who knows me knows I am like dog with a bone when it comes to issues close to my heart, and I will not let this one go. I raise again the need for a second railway station on the north side of the town and the immediate...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2025)

Mark Duffy: ...it highlighted in the Seanad to put pressure on for a community that is living in fear. It is the exit onto the Hagfield road and serves St. Attracta’s nursing home as well as a local garage and dog kennels. This is an example of TII inaction on a road for which it has responsibility. The road needs to be addressed and made safe. It is a treacherous junction. Along this stretch...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farm Safety: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

...some 3,500 primary schools within Ireland. I also go into pre-schools. If three-year-olds and four-year-olds are very verbal and capable of talking about cattle, shearing sheep, dosing sheep, worming dogs and everything else, they are perfectly capable of getting this information. I have the structure. I have the programme. I just need the resources to get it. I am lucky to be under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farmer Mental Health and Well-being: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

William Aird: ...have the witnesses, the IFA and Macra. I had an inspection approximately ten years ago. I would be robust enough. We finished up in the milking parlour. There was the inspector, myself and my dog. The inspector turned to me with his chart and told me I had a problem because the dog was not meant to be in the milking parlour. I told him he was wrong because it was a bitch. I told...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Parks (9 Jul 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Roderic O'Gorman: 28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether he would advance the concept of an enclosed off-leash area for dogs in the Phoenix Park, close to the Ashtown Gate or the Hole in the Wall pedestrian gate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38177/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (9 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the salaries of all dog wardens, per county, to include starting salary, increments and top rate of salary, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38284/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (9 Jul 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Robert O'Donoghue: 127. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the arrangements currently in place for the procurement and delivery of veterinary services at dog shelters; if he will detail any recent changes to these arrangements; the guidance issued by his Department to ensure consistency and high standards across such facilities; if veterinarians assigned have experience in shelter...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (9 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 128. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has plans to review the effectiveness of the new regulations introduced in respect of XL Bully dogs; if he is satisfied that the veterinary assessments and opinions underpinning these regulations are robust, consistent and appropriately informed by evidence; if he will outline the parameters currently guiding such...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (9 Jul 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 130. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all dog breeding establishments, per county and per category of establishment, for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38320/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Sales (9 Jul 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 131. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dogs exported from Ireland in each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38321/25]