Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed)

Mr. Martin Blake:

It is probably something we need to look at in terms of policy coherence across all animal species. Farmers identify 2.5 million calves and 1 million sheep every year. They are self-identified and these are animals in the food chain. It is just a matter of policy coherence across these things. If we prescribe it for one species, why not for another? All these things come into the conversation regarding the cost-benefit. We have to ask if the benefit outweighs the cost of us needing us to step outside policy coherence for a particular activity.

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