Niall Ó Brolcháin (Green Party)

When I served on Galway City Council we had a difficult time in this area because we had only one dog warden to deal with the issues related to dogs. We tried to get around this by involving well qualified local veterinary practitioners who had spent many years in college, but, unfortunately, we were not able to do that.

Under this amendment tabled by Fine Gael, it is extraordinary that well qualified country veterinary practitioners could not be employed in regard to this Bill-----