Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-14-Speech-3-206"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Question Time (Council)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040114.5.3-206"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-14-Speech-3-2072
lpv:speaker	lp:Patricia McKENNA2
lpv:spoken text	"It is nice to be the first Irish person to ask the Irish presidency a question. I have just come from the animal welfare intergroup, where they are also hoping that animal welfare will be a big issue, especially the transport of animals. Commissioner Byrne said that this issue was not the EU's responsibility and is not regulated under EU legislation. At one stage or another, EU subsidies contributed to the breeding of many of the greyhounds in Ireland. That has stopped now, but it is up to each Member State, as you said. It is up to the Irish Government to introduce rules on breeding and proper controls, and also to ensure that the owners of the animals are responsible for them, not just for the racing period but to the end of their life. In Ireland, when greyhounds reach about two years of age, the vast majority of them are considered by the Irish race industry to be burned out. They are sold off for next to nothing to Spain, where they are raced to death. They are subjected to appalling cruelty. Religious rights do not come into this. It is really an issue of animal welfare, and the Irish Government should introduce something to control the breeding of greyhounds and to ensure that the people who breed them are responsible for them up to the end of their lives. Some sort of identification mechanism, such as a tagging system, would also make it much easier to identify them. I have just spoken to someone who has just come back from Spain. They visited an illegal race track where they saw nine Irish dogs racing. So we must take responsibility for these animals, regardless of whether they are in our country or have been exported."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Green Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, south-east Asia and the Republic of Korea (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"McKenna (Verts/ALE )."1

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