Mr. Conor Dowling:

Our experience has been that the lack is less with regard to the information relating to the dog but with the information relating to the owner.

All too often, that information is inaccurate or inadequate to identify a person. Whoever is providing the data, taking the information from the person who has presented these dogs or pups to be microchipped, is quite often not getting sufficient information. Sometimes the data will include a generic townland, area or road without a specific address. In one example, there were large numbers of puppies being held in a derelict premises for sale. They had been microchipped with different variations of the same name, all on the same road, so we could not identify precisely who this person was. That is where the issue lies for us, in the gathering of that information.