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Fri 04 Apr 2010Senator criticises animal campaign
A Fine Gael Senator has claimed “a cabal in the Green Party” is dictating government policy on animal welfare and condemned an “orchestrated campaign” by people outside the State seeking to influence legislation.
John Paul Phelan said the Oireachtas computer system was “jammed up” with hundreds of messages from animal rights activists around the world urging Senators to support the Dog Breeding Establishments Bill, 2009. He, and “all the other Senators”, have been “inundated with e-mail” from Belgium, Brazil, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the US and elsewhere. “Politicians in Ireland shouldn’t be bullied into a course of action by citizens of foreign countries,” he said.
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