It has been widely leaked in the Irish Press that the Green Party is pushing an animal rights agenda in a bid to get support from their party faithful to support economic cut backs by the government of which they form a part.
A formal letter was this week sent to An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen TD, by the Chair of the Hunting Association of Ireland (HAI) and a constituent of Mr Cowen. The HAI has mobilised support to keep the pressure on Fianna Fail, the majority party in the Government, not to heed the pressure from the Green Party to implement animal rights legislation on the Statute Book in Ireland. The message to An Taoiseach has been loud and clear, urging him not to make the same mistakes that have been made in the mainland UK in relation to hunting and coursing.
The programme for government is going to be agreed today (Friday 9th October) between Fianna Fail and the Green Party.
The greens nearly lost all thier seats in the euro election they are a busted flush and FF are on the down this will never happen.
The hunts are being hit throught the back door by the commercial dog breeder’s legislation. despite fianna fail assurances that they would be exempt from the regulations which appear fairly matter of fact and pretty basic in outlining standards in care for the dogs, the main point of these regulations is money, and monitoring of the breeding for taxation purposes.
Big big rates are to be charged to folks with 5 or more uneutered bitches over the age of 4 months. so much that getting an indidvidual dog license for each one will not cover the increase in costs. hunts have pleaded they are not commercial. hunts never never sell any of their dogs. dogs are traded between masters and neither gifted nor sold to the public.
But there you go Fianna Fail have lied again ! surprised ? I think not
mise le meas
marie mc neill