Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 March 2019

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Section 59 relates to the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011 and provides that only progeny produced in compliance with subsections (2) and (3) of section 11 of that Act, that is, the first to sixth litter or the seventh and eighth litters following certification, are permitted to be registered in the Irish Greyhound Stud Book and makes it an offence for a person to attempt to register other litters. As such, the issue of natural mating is covered. This is not a welfare Bill, but we have tried to set out the rules that-----

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