Results 1-17 of 17 for hunting speaker:Edward O'Hara

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: Order. We are concerned about the programme resolution for the Hunting Bill.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that point of order. The terms of reference of this Committee are the Hunting Bill.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: If I may rescue the Parliamentary Secretary, this comes under the definition of dilation on the details of the Deer Act 1991; we are debating the Hunting Bill.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: Order. I feel that I must rule on this matter. We have had this debate before in the context of whether it is more humane for a mammal to be hunted, or taken in the air by a hawk and dropped to the ground. This issue gives rise to a similar debate, but one that is not the subject of the amendment. We are not supposed to be discussing whether it is more or less humane for an animal to be...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (6 Feb 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: With this we may take the following amendments: No. 51, in page 20, line 22, leave out `stalking' and insert `hunting'. No. 54, in page 20, line 28, leave out `out of cover'. No. 55, in page 20, line 30, leave out `stalking or flushing out' and insert `hunting'. No. 56, in page 20, line 32, after `livestock', insert `fish'. No. 57, in page 20, line 32, leave out `or crops' and insert ...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (1 Feb 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: Order. I have allowed the hon. Gentleman to make his point, but he should be aware that we have already debated the inclusion or exclusion of categories of animals that hunt or are hunted.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (1 Feb 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: ...carefully to the contribution of the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal, and it is in order. Indeed, it is highly relevant, given that paragraph 3 refers to an owner who permits his dog to hunt wild mammals. Natural tendencies that might be beyond an owner's control are a legitimate subject for debate, whether or not one agrees with the right hon. Gentleman's view.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill (1 Feb 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: Committee members have managed to get here in weather that foxes would enjoy. Schedule 3 Hunting with dogs: prohibition

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (30 Jan 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: ...keep the Committee strictly to the amendment's terms of reference. As I understand its syntax, the phrase ``so as to cause'' refers to the consequences of the action, rather than the intention. A hunter might behave with the best of intentions in his terms, but the consequences under the terms of the amendment could be disastrous. Although he might have good intentions, he causes...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (30 Jan 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: ...hon. Gentleman is again straying beyond the terms of the amendment. Whether shooting a fox causes more or less suffering is not relevant to the amendment, which refers to the suffering caused by hunting.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (30 Jan 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman that this is not a Second Reading debate about the merits of the Bill, but a debate about amendment No. 43, which refers to the consequences of the hunt for the animal being hunted.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (30 Jan 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: ...hon. Gentleman and I commend him for keeping broadly to the terms of the amendment. I can see the difficulty in doing so and the temptation to stray beyond the amendment to general arguments about hunting. The amendment refers to the ``unnecessary suffering'' involved in hunting with dogs. Although it may be appropriate to allude to other forms of suffering, it is not appropriate to go...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (30 Jan 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: ...(Mr. Leigh) responds to that intervention, I should point out that we are trying to stay close to the amendment's terms of reference. It refers not to the hunter's motivation, but to the hunt's consequences for the wild mammal. I ask the hon. Gentleman and those who intervene to bear that in mind.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (30 Jan 2001)

Mr Edward O'Hara: Order. Having listened to the whole of that anecdote, I rule it out of order, because the amendment refers specifically to ``unnecessary suffering to the wild mammal'' being hunted.

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (3 Mar 1995)

Mr Edward O'Hara: .... I am proud to be a sponsor of the Bill, which covers a subject dear to my heart. I shall address the issue by means of the only two pieces of correspondence I have had from supporters of fox hunting—fox hunting is the aspect of the Bill that I shall address—amid the hundreds of communications in support of the Bill I have had from constituents. The first letter was from a...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (3 Mar 1995)

Mr Edward O'Hara: ...as we now recognise that there is no place in society for slavery, bear baiting and female circumcision, perhaps it is time that we recognised that there is also no place in our society for fox hunting.

Orders of the Day — Badgers Bill (15 Feb 1991)

Mr Edward O'Hara: ...of pest control. I ask them, please, to keep a sense of proportion. My hon. Friend the Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Davies) adequately drew attention to the flaws in the argument for pest control by hunting and field sports. I hope that the spirit of conciliation and compromise, which was evident early in the debate and which gave me some optimism for the passage of the Bill, is carried...