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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Maybe it has changed, but I understood if there was a problem with welfare councils have a vet or a person on animal welfare and the councils were involved in basically rounding up horses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will ask whether the witnesses agree with my analysis. Let us say I have a herd number for cattle or sheep. Before I get that, I must have a cattle crush and a proper shed. Is the same thing being applied in the horse industry? There are some places where I wonder whether they have the facilities at all for handling a horse.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Would it be a good idea to have a check? The witnesses were saying welfare needs to be taken away from the Department of agriculture, but in fairness to the Department, with cattle, sheep and all that, it has regular inspections for different reasons for different schemes. It might be worth liaising with it to see whether this could be checked up on. There is no point in someone who has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Can people just buy a horse?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They do not need an equine number.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is a bit of a difference going on here. This is about traceability.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: With livestock, if a farmer buys an animal off some other farmer, within three minutes it is all changed over. Everyone knows where it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is no reason it should not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How do we solve that? How do we get that education out there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses very much for all their information.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
The Dáil went into Committee to consider amendments from the Seanad.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are related and will be discussed together.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
Seanad amendment No. 1:
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
Alan Dillon: There are two parts to the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024. The first relates to the amendments to the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 and the second relates to the amendments to the Affordable Housing Act 2021. A Seanad Committee Stage amendment was brought by the Government and passed in the Seanad on 16 October 2024. The Bill has now been...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Sinn Féin is not opposing the amendment. However, I must say that a number of the justifications used by the Minister of State in describing the amendment are not factually correct. I would like to give him the opportunity to clarify some of the aspects behind this very specific amendment given that it is a very significant amount of money. The LDA does not have access to over...
- Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Schedule agreed to.
- Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Title agreed to.
- Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Bill reported without amendment and received for final consideration.
- Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Question put: "That the Bill do now pass." The Dáil divided: Tá, 72; Níl, 53; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Brendan Howlin and Denise Mitchell.