Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One learns something new every day.

There is one final topic I want to deal with, about which we received some additional information by way of a letter from Mr. Gleeson. I want to follow up on the dog business in much more detail. I am not referring to the greyhound industry. We had representatives from Bord na gCon before us who spoke about how many greyhounds had entered the industry, how many were still racing and so on. They spoke about their own record in that regard. I was concerned about double registration. The letter from the Department says that there is no double registration but I do not understand it.

I would see racing greyhounds as a small subset of the overall canine or dog business. There are probably a lot of greyhounds in the country that are not in the racing business. People have them for walking, for example. The Bord na gCon people are just a subset of the larger industry. How many dogs are in the country?

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