Seanad debates

Wednesday, 30 November 2022

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Motion

 

10:30 am

Photo of Lynn BoylanLynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 3:

To insert the following after “October, 2022”: “; that Seanad Éireann:

- notes recommendation No. 4 in the Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine entitled ‘Issues impacting Dog Welfare in Ireland’ which stated, ‘given Surgical Artificial Insemination carries risks even when performed in a controlled, sterile and surgical environment, the Committee recommends a complete ban on Surgical Artificial Insemination’;

- notes subsection (10) of section 12 of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Act, 2001, which obliges Rásaíocht Capall Éireann to submit strategic plans to the Minister ‘in such manner and at such intervals as required by the Minister with reference to the application of those moneys’ paid to them from the Fund;

- calls on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to request an update to the strategic plan of Rásaíocht Capall Éireann which includes a complete ban on surgical artificial insemination for greyhounds as a greyhound welfare measure; 2244 30 Samhain, 2022

- and further calls on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to make payment from the Fund to Rásaíocht Capall Éireann subject to the introduction of a ban on surgical artificial insemination in greyhound racing”.

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