Ivana Bacik (Independent)

I ask the Leader for a debate on the issue of stag hunting, which seems to raise passions. Before anyone accuses me of being involved in the urban-rural divide, I grew up in the country and remember people following the fox hunts on foot in Cork, so I know it can be part of a community. However, there are other ways of doing it, such as drag hunting and so on.

It is important to remember that the Greens, while they are supporting animal welfare on this important issue, have still been making savage cuts in terms of human welfare in the social welfare Bill we opposed but which, unfortunately, passed Second Stage yesterday. I ask the Leader for a debate on the impact these social welfare cuts will have on the most vulnerable, assuming the Bill passes.