Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Dr. Egan will appreciate that there is an animal welfare issue here as well. If it goes past six months before issuance, it will be stamped that they cannot enter the food chain. Everybody who produces a foal thinks they will be world beaters and will never have any anticipation of them entering the food chain but clearly there is an animal health and welfare issue with this as well. Is that not the case?