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What activities can you list that people use rough shooting as a cover for, as you have just suggested?

What are the similarities between trail hunting and rough shooting?

So, how could someone get away with pretending that they are rough shooting if they are trail hunting?

Your words were “as a cover for”, but that is what you are suggesting. Are you saying that people will pretend that they are rough shooting when they are trail hunting?

Will you confirm that it is not your intention to restrict rough shooting through the scope of the bill?

Can I have clarification? I think that you have contradicted what you said to Beatrice Wishart. My understanding of what was said before is that if two people had two dogs each and the four dogs were stalking and flushing, and person B shot something that the other person’s dogs had stalked and flushed, that would be an offence. Ms Fitzgerald said something opposite to that.

So, it was your intention to restrict rough shooting though the scope of the bill.

If you are in cover, how do you know which dog has flushed?

What are the similarities between trail hunting and rough shooting that would allow someone to say to a policeman who arrives, “I am rough shooting”?

That is interesting.