Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2025-04-10
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

Some 3.5 million pigs are slaughtered in Ireland every year. We do not see them much because they are largely confined indoors, in big metal sheds. However, thanks to undercover investigations by the National Animal Rights Association and Animal Rebellion, we know what is going on inside these sheds, and real horrors are happening to these pigs. Six farms have been randomly selected and have had undercover investigations in them, and you really do not want to watch the videos of the kind of conditions these pigs endure: crammed together, tiny amounts of space, no natural light, not good ventilation, concrete floors, mother pigs literally unable to move because they are trapped in farrowing crates for long periods, tails docked in very unhygienic ways, castration, lying with abscesses on the floor and piglets dying and just left dead. This is not just one or two rotten apples, very clearly.

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Sitting date: 2025-04-10