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    The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan (Fine Gael, Dublin Rathdown) has shamefully signed a declaration which allows the nests and eggs of gulls to be taken and destroyed in parts of Dublin. The mean-spirited declaration also allows birds "in any location in the State" to be caught in cruel cage traps, poisoned and shot with rifles and shotguns. The declaration, signed by Minister Madigan on 2nd May 2018, states that she is "of the opinion that the species referred to in Schedule 1 to this declaration represent a threat to public health or safety or are likely to cause serious damage to crops or to livestock or are likely to cause damage to fauna" and that she is "satisfied that no other satisfactory solution exists". The fauna referred to is the "young of game birds" - i.e. birds who will later be gunned down by hunters who get their fun from blasting birds out of the sky. The birds condemned to suffer and die under Minister Madigan's declaration are: Hooded Grey Crows, Magpies, Rooks, Jackdaws, Wood Pigeons, Feral Pigeons, Herring Gulls, Greater Black-backed Gulls and Lesser Black-backed Gulls. The gulls - which Minister Madigan claims are a "threat to public safety" - will see their nests and eggs being taken and destroyed in an area of Dublin which includes parts of Balbriggan. The other species of birds may be shot with a rifle or shotgun all across Ireland. In addition, the pigeons may be killed with "non meat based poisons or anaesthetic bait" under permit from the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Hooded Grey Crows and Magpies will also suffer the cruelty of "cage traps with or without live decoys". These include Larsen traps which were designed in Denmark in the 1950s and are now banned there due to the suffering caused. They use a permanently trapped bird to lure in other birds. They fly down on to the trap, fall through a collapsing floor and find themselves trapped too. Before being brutally killed, they will be overcome with the fear and stress of confinement. Some will sustain broken beaks and cut heads from futile attempts to smash their way to freedom. When crow and magpie parents are caught and killed, their orphaned chicks will starve to death in nests. Minister Josepha Madigan's targeting of wildlife is not just confined to birds. She also disgracefully issues a licence which allows cruel hare coursers to net thousands of Irish Hares from the wild to be used as live lures for greyhounds to chase on coursing fields. In 2016, she was among the 114 TDs who voted against Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan's bill which sought to ban cruel hare coursing. In an email to a constituent ahead of the Dail Eireann vote on the bill, she claimed that hare coursing is "an integral part of the sporting year" and that a ban on the cruel bloodsport would have a "detrimental impact on rural Ireland". Despite having received an ICABS report which details the hare injuries and deaths caused by coursing, she made the outrageous claim that the monitoring of coursing meetings by National Parks and Wildlife Service staff "has proved effective in ensuring that the welfare of the hare is protected". Our report detailed hares hit, mauled, injured and killed by greyhounds on coursing fields around the country. It also included information on hares injured so severely, they had to be treated or put to sleep by vets.

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    The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan (Fine Gael, Dublin Rathdown) has shamefully signed a declaration which allows the nests and eggs of gulls to be taken and destroyed in parts of Dublin. The mean-spirited declaration also allows birds "in any location in the State" to be caught in cruel cage traps, poisoned and shot with rifles and shotguns. The declaration, signed by Minister Madigan on 2nd May 2018, states that she is "of the opinion that the species referred to in Schedule 1 to this declaration represent a threat to public health or safety or are likely to cause serious damage to crops or to livestock or are likely to cause damage to fauna" and that she is "satisfied that no other satisfactory solution exists". The fauna referred to is the "young of game birds" - i.e. birds who will later be gunned down by hunters who get their fun from blasting birds out of the sky. The birds condemned to suffer and die under Minister Madigan's declaration are: Hooded Grey Crows, Magpies, Rooks, Jackdaws, Wood Pigeons, Feral Pigeons, Herring Gulls, Greater Black-backed Gulls and Lesser Black-backed Gulls. The gulls - which Minister Madigan claims are a "threat to public safety" - will see their nests and eggs being taken and destroyed in an area of Dublin which includes parts of Balbriggan. The other species of birds may be shot with a rifle or shotgun all across Ireland. In addition, the pigeons may be killed with "non meat based poisons or anaesthetic bait" under permit from the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Hooded Grey Crows and Magpies will also suffer the cruelty of "cage traps with or without live decoys". These include Larsen traps which were designed in Denmark in the 1950s and are now banned there due to the suffering caused. They use a permanently trapped bird to lure in other birds. They fly down on to the trap, fall through a collapsing floor and find themselves trapped too. Before being brutally killed, they will be overcome with the fear and stress of confinement. Some will sustain broken beaks and cut heads from futile attempts to smash their way to freedom. When crow and magpie parents are caught and killed, their orphaned chicks will starve to death in nests. Minister Josepha Madigan's targeting of wildlife is not just confined to birds. She also disgracefully issues a licence which allows cruel hare coursers to net thousands of Irish Hares from the wild to be used as live lures for greyhounds to chase on coursing fields. In 2016, she was among the 114 TDs who voted against Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan's bill which sought to ban cruel hare coursing. In an email to a constituent ahead of the Dail Eireann vote on the bill, she claimed that hare coursing is "an integral part of the sporting year" and that a ban on the cruel bloodsport would have a "detrimental impact on rural Ireland". Despite having received an ICABS report which details the hare injuries and deaths caused by coursing, she made the outrageous claim that the monitoring of coursing meetings by National Parks and Wildlife Service staff "has proved effective in ensuring that the welfare of the hare is protected". Our report detailed hares hit, mauled, injured and killed by greyhounds on coursing fields around the country. It also included information on hares injured so severely, they had to be treated or put to sleep by vets.

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    The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan (Fine Gael, Dublin Rathdown) has shamefully signed a declaration which allows the nests and eggs of gulls to be taken and destroyed in parts of Dublin. The mean-spirited declaration also allows birds "in any location in the State" to be caught in cruel cage traps, poisoned and shot with rifles and shotguns. The declaration, signed by Minister Madigan on 2nd May 2018, states that she is "of the opinion that the species referred to in Schedule 1 to this declaration represent a threat to public health or safety or are likely to cause serious damage to crops or to livestock or are likely to cause damage to fauna" and that she is "satisfied that no other satisfactory solution exists". The fauna referred to is the "young of game birds" - i.e. birds who will later be gunned down by hunters who get their fun from blasting birds out of the sky. The birds condemned to suffer and die under Minister Madigan's declaration are: Hooded Grey Crows, Magpies, Rooks, Jackdaws, Wood Pigeons, Feral Pigeons, Herring Gulls, Greater Black-backed Gulls and Lesser Black-backed Gulls. The gulls - which Minister Madigan claims are a "threat to public safety" - will see their nests and eggs being taken and destroyed in an area of Dublin which includes parts of Balbriggan. The other species of birds may be shot with a rifle or shotgun all across Ireland. In addition, the pigeons may be killed with "non meat based poisons or anaesthetic bait" under permit from the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Hooded Grey Crows and Magpies will also suffer the cruelty of "cage traps with or without live decoys". These include Larsen traps which were designed in Denmark in the 1950s and are now banned there due to the suffering caused. They use a permanently trapped bird to lure in other birds. They fly down on to the trap, fall through a collapsing floor and find themselves trapped too. Before being brutally killed, they will be overcome with the fear and stress of confinement. Some will sustain broken beaks and cut heads from futile attempts to smash their way to freedom. When crow and magpie parents are caught and killed, their orphaned chicks will starve to death in nests. Minister Josepha Madigan's targeting of wildlife is not just confined to birds. She also disgracefully issues a licence which allows cruel hare coursers to net thousands of Irish Hares from the wild to be used as live lures for greyhounds to chase on coursing fields. In 2016, she was among the 114 TDs who voted against Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan's bill which sought to ban cruel hare coursing. In an email to a constituent ahead of the Dail Eireann vote on the bill, she claimed that hare coursing is "an integral part of the sporting year" and that a ban on the cruel bloodsport would have a "detrimental impact on rural Ireland". Despite having received an ICABS report which details the hare injuries and deaths caused by coursing, she made the outrageous claim that the monitoring of coursing meetings by National Parks and Wildlife Service staff "has proved effective in ensuring that the welfare of the hare is protected". Our report detailed hares hit, mauled, injured and killed by greyhounds on coursing fields around the country. It also included information on hares injured so severely, they had to be treated or put to sleep by vets.

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    \RTMENT OF CULTURE, HERITAGE AND TI LACH DI (TION UNDER REGULATION 3(1) (A) OF THE, *EAN COMMUNITIES (WILDLIFE ACT I MIEN TIONS 1986 (81. 4s ‘The Minister for Cltue, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, being of the opinion tat the species refered tin Schedule 1 to this declaration represent threat to pubic health or safety or ae fikely to cause serious damage to crops orto livesnck or are likely to cause damage to fauna and being satisfied that no other satstictory solution exists, hereby declares pursuant to regulation 3) of the European Communities (Wildlie Act 1976) (Amendment) Regulations 1986 (SJ. No, 254 of 1986), as adapted, that for the purpose of preventing the disease, injury or damage specified in column (2) of Schedule 1 by the species mentioned in column (1) of Schedule I the sail species ‘may be captured or killed or otherwise interfered with on any propenty by any of the means, ‘rangements or methods specified in column (4) of Schedule 1 dung the period specified for each species in column (3) of Schedule 1 to this delaation in any location inthe State, except where ‘otherwise specified in column @) ofthe Schedule tothe declaration, by the ower or oseupice of ‘uy such property or the servant or agent ofthe ewer or occupies of any such property on which the sid threat to public health or safety is represented by such species o in order to prevent serious

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