Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Animal Welfare and the Control and Management of Horses: Discussion

Mr. Martin Blake:

Enforcement comes from ensuring people comply with the law. When we get to a stage where the vast majority of people are compliant, then we can devote resources to taking people through the courts. Where we are dealing with 50% of clients not in compliance, we work on trying to get more and more people compliant. The ability is in place to take people to court on identification and welfare issues. We have prosecuted several cases under the new Act on horse welfare grounds since 2013.

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