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No. 136 of 2021

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021

Public bill · Government · Presented

It would ban fur farming by stopping the breeding or keeping of certain animals mainly for their fur or skin, and it would make doing so a criminal offence. It would also set up compensation for the few mink farms that would have to close, including support for losses, redundancy costs, clean-up and demolition, with disputes able to go to the High Court. Alongside that, it would update rules for livestock marts, tidy up older animal-health law, and add forestry measures to help create native tree areas.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to provide for the prohibition of the breeding, rearing or keeping of specified animals solely or primarily for the value of, or the manufacture of products from, their fur or skin; to provide for a system of compensation to persons who before the coming into operation of the prohibition were engaged in the fur farming of mink pursuant to a licence under the Musk Rats Act 1933; to confer on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the power to make regulations for the purpose of licensing livestock marts; to repeal certain provisions of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 relating to the licensing of animal marts; to amend the Forestry Act 2014 to make provision for schemes to facilitate the planting of native tree areas; to repeal the Milk (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 11 September 2024

Sponsor
  • Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages
    Seanad
  • Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Seanad
  • Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Seanad
  • Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages
    Dáil
  • Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
    Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
  • Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil

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