Disgust at ‘massive’ grants to Donegal fur farms! Irish Council Against Blood Sports ICABS Ireland

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APR 26, 2019 —

Disgust at 'massive' grants to Donegal fur farms
Highland Radio, April 26, 2019

The Irish Council against blood sports has expressed its anger over revelations that two fur farms in Donegal have received over €200,000 in state funding.

It's understood that Tazetta fur farm near Glenties has received at least six annual grants over the past decade from state body Údarás na Gaeltachta.

The grants were provided under employment and capital grant schemes. The funding began in 2009 when the company received a €10,400 grant.The following year, Údarás na Gaeltachta handed over €26,000 to the fur farm.

This was followed by €28,261 in 2014, €58,149 in 2015, €7,090 in 2016 and €3,560 in 2017. Figures for 2018 are not available.

In its lists of "enterprises which received grants", Údarás outlines that the grants to Tazetta relate to "saothrú fionnaidh" ("cultivation of fur").

Meanwhile another fur farm, Roxy Ltd in Killybegs – which is now closed down – received €82,123 over the last two decades from Údarás na Gaeltachta.

In a statement, ICABS called for an end to these grants and have renewed their appeal to the government to ban fur farming entirely.

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ICABS ACTION ALERT

Demand an immediate end to Údarás na Gaeltachta's fur farming grants.

Mícheál Ó hÉanaigh
CEO, Údarás na Gaeltachta
Head Office,
Na Forbacha, Galway
Telephone: 091 503100
Email: moheanaigh@udaras.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UdarasnaG
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UdarasnaG


Urge Taoiseach/Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, and Agriculture Minister Michael Creed to put in place a long overdue ban on fur farming.

Leo Varadkar TD
Department of the Taoiseach
Merrion Street, Dublin 2
Phone: +353 (0)1-6194000 OR +353 (0)1-6403133, +353 (0)1-6194598 (Constituency Office)
Email: leo.varadkar@oir.ie, leoconstituency@taoiseach.gov.ie, finegael@finegael.ie
CC: michael.creed@oir.ie (Agriculture Minister Michael Creed)
Leave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leovaradkar
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Michael Creed TD
Minister for Agriculture
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Email: michael.creed@oir.ie
Tel: 01-607 2000 or LoCall 1890-200510.
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Please contact all your local TDs and urge them to support Solidarity's Fur Farm Prohibition bill 2018. Contact details for TDs can be found at https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/tds/?term=/ie/oireachtas/house/dail/32


VIDEOS

NARA footage showing caged mink at Tazetta fur farm in Donegal
https://www.facebook.com/NARAcampaignsIRELAND/videos/1694193503937318/

Mink screaming at Vasa fur farm in Stradbally, County Laois
https://www.facebook.com/banbloodsports/posts/2155285741253639

Victims of Ireland's cruel far farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=artr7qwCLLk&index=2&list=PL43C1F00F38986C68

Mink pulled from cages and thrown into gassing box
https://www.facebook.com/banbloodsports/videos/2241073319549210/

Údarás na Gaeltachta grants to Tazetta fur farm

2017: €3,560
2016: €7,090
2015: €58,149
2014: €28,261 (confirmed as employment grant)
2010: €26,000
2009: €10,400
Total: €133,460

Údarás na Gaeltachta grants to Roxy fur farm

Pre-1999: £52,387 (€66,517)
1999: £6,067 (€7,703)
2001: €1,340
2002: €7,617
2004: €-1,055 (deduction)
Total: €82,123

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