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Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025
- Sponsor
- Ruth Coppinger · People Before Profit-Solidarity
- Introduced
- 28 May 2025
- Last updated
- 29 May 2025
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Amends Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to ban fox hunting, including using dogs to chase, flush, dig out, trap, or snare foxes.
- Prohibits trail hunting (following fox scent), closing a loophole identified in British experience where it leads to actual fox killing.
- Comes into force 6 months after passing, or earlier at Minister for Agriculture's discretion.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage34th Dáil28 May 2025
- Second Stage34th Dáil17 Dec 2025
Debates
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