Niall Ó Brolcháin (Green Party)

-----come over here from England. Does the Senator honestly expect Fine Gael controlled local authorities to employ such people? Would they not do a background search on the people they employ in regard to dog control? Of course they will. It is ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Local authorities will not make fools of themselves. Somebody described the people involved in animal liberation as terrorists and we have heard the phrase, "Stalinist Russia", this is scare-mongering in the extreme.

This is a simple Bill which allows local authorities to make that consideration.