Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I would put it to the Department that it is a basic principle of a traceability scheme that we all know what is happening. If I cannot look up a dog and check what has happened to them, it is problematic. It is not truly transparent, and it is not something that we can rely on.

I want to go back to the numbers that the chairman raised because we have established in earlier contributions that on average every year, 14,000 to 15,000 pups are born. Mr. Herbert told me earlier that 4,500 of those go to racing, 5,800 to go export and 2,000 are rehomed. That leaves 2,500 that are unaccounted for.