Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Senator Lombard touched on traceability, which I wanted to raise. I will ask almost the same question I asked of the IGB. How does the ICC expect the matter to be worked out? What onus will be on owners to register or chip pups, and how can it be made a success? Knee-jerk reactions after the programme and so on are all good and fine, but there has to be traceability of greyhounds from birth to death, and everything in between.

I watched the programme. The coverage of the Whiddy Island event was disingenuous of RTÉ, in view of the true context we have heard during the meeting. The event was run by a registered coursing club and was regulated. Individuals were named and identified in the programme and it was portrayed in no uncertain terms as an illegal event. That was wrong and disingenuous of RTÉ. One can have one's opinion of coursing but that is a different argument. While I accept that some of the aspects that were highlighted needed to be highlighted, RTÉ cannot ride roughshod, identify people and portray them as attending or partaking in something illegal, given that it has been proven to us that it was far from an illegal event.