Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My second question relates to the greyhound studbook. I understand the Irish Coursing Club, ICC, runs both the studbook in Ireland and the studbook in Britain. It provides the services for those two studbooks. We repeatedly hear from Greyhound Racing Ireland and the Government that there is a desire for complete transparency and that we have a new traceability system in place. Given that 83% of the dogs on the British studbook are Irish bred, which is a matter of fact, why is it that only one of those studbooks is registered with Europetnet? The British studbook is not registered with Europetnet, which would give full traceability. Surely we should be calling for Rásaíocht Con Éireann to insist that, if it is going to send 83% of the dogs to race in Britain, the microchip system they are on would be registered with Europetnet. This would allow us to have full traceability across the life of the dog.