Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It feeds into what Ms Creedon said about responsible breeders in that with responsible breeders people nearly have to interview to get the dog. It is the same with shelters and pounds. They will gasp at the photographs of where the dog will be kept. There is no keeping the dog outside overnight. There are all those questions, and they will not re-home an adult dog with young children. That is again correct because the shelter or pound cannot give a guarantee. The problem then, however, is that if it is made difficult to re-home rescue dogs and we still do not close the other avenue, people will not get dogs from the rescues where they are doing the due diligence; they will go and get them from the online adverts. I say that just to put on the record the reasons shelters do that quizzing and how important it is that people find dogs that suit their particular families and their particular environments.