Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed)

4:10 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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How can the person desist if he or she is not offending? The wording appears to have an implication that he or she is doing something, but the Minister is saying there are only reasonable grounds and no evidence for believing he or she is doing it. He is also talking about getting there before a person offends, but the wording appears to imply that he or she must be offending-----