Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion

Photo of Lynn BoylanLynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

DNA is something that is in the mix but taking that out of it, is the issue not that where someone is able to put an advert online, whether it relates to a horse or a dog, we want the online platforms to be able to verify that the information is correct in advance of the advert going live. My experience with the dogs is that you report an ad and that it takes a couple of hours because it has to be reported a number of times for the algorithm to pick it up. By the time the ad is taken down, the dog has been sold. Would a solution come from making this information verifiable, so that people cannot put fake information online and adverts will just not go live if the information is incorrect?

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